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France, Centenary of the Banque de France, 1900, a pair of medals by L.-O. Roty, silver and bronze, head of La Republique left, rev. seated and standing figures surveying a landscape, first named (Frederic Cornudet), 68mm (Coll. R. Marx –; BM Acq. 1978-82, p.48, 178; BDM V, 239; Gaz. Num. 1905, p.234, 190; cf. DNW 49, 905) [2]. In fitted leather case, extremely fine, rare as a pair (£300-350)