Auction Catalogue

13 March 2002

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Ancient, Celtic, British and World Coins. Tokens, Tickets and Passes. Historical and Art Medals. Numismatic Books

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1172

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13 March 2002

Hammer Price:
£50

France, Centenary of l’Internat en Médecine des Hôpitaux Civils de Paris, 1902, a plated bronze medal by L.-A. Bottée, figure of Paris comforting a doctor looking after a patient on a stretcher, Notre-Dame in background, rev. figure of Science above a doctor reading a book at a table on which a microscope, skull and other medical accoutrements lie, named (H. Chéron, 1894), 68mm (PBE 24; CGMP p.61; BM Acq. 1978-82, pl.36, 21; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.16, 6; BDM I, 232; cf. DNW 49, 913). About very fine (£50-60)

Presumably the date 1894 represents the year the recipient became an intern