Coins, Paper Money, Tokens and Historical Medals

FRANCE, Almenesches, a silver award medal by A. Duseaux, named (Offert par Mr Grégoire, Maire, a Mr Bielovuccic [sic] en Souvenir du Raid d’ Almenesches, 8 Avril 1912), 40mm; Association Générale Aeronautique, a silver award medal by R. Brangier, named (J. Bielovucic 1913), 54mm; together with other silver award medals for aviation (4), by Bargas, Blin, Guilbert and Morlon [6]. Very fine to extremely fine £100-150

Jean (Juan or Ivan) Bielovucic (1889-1949), born in Lima, Peru, the son of a Croat father and French mother, was one of the pioneers of modern aviation. He held many distance and altitude records in the period 1909-13