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Spain, Death of Jose Echegaray, 1916, a bronze medal by L.C. Valera, bust left, rev. robed figure with shield and spear standing on catafalque, young female and cupid below, 60mm. Extremely fine, light patina (£30-40)

Don Jose Echegaray (1852-1916), one of the most popular Spanish dramatists of the 19th century, shared the 1904 Nobel Prize for Literature with Frédéric Mistral. Echegaray was also a mathematician, civil engineer, economist and politician