Auction Catalogue

19 March 2003

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books and Banknotes. Includes the Ellen Judson Collection of British Tokens (Part II)

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

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Lot

№ 1417

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19 March 2003

Hammer Price:
£250

France, Ministère de l’Air, 1936, a gilt-bronze presentation ballooning medal by M. Betannoy, a tethered balloon, another, behind, in free-flight and a gyrocopter, service trucks below, rev. CONCOURS D’HONNEUR DE L’AEROSTATION, named, (Epreuve de Ballon Libre 1er Prix, Commandant Guyard, de la 52e Demi-Brigade 1936), 80mm (Malpas –). Extremely fine and rare; in fitted leather case of issue, lid blocked [Ministère de l’Air] (£120-150)

Perhaps the earliest medallic representation of a gyrocopter