Coins and Historical Medals

FRANCE, Berger cherchant à lire une inscription sur une rocher du passage des Thermopyles [1875], a uniface plated bronze medal by L.-O. Roty, shepherd attempting to read inscription on rocks at Thermopylae, 75mm (Roty Compagnonnage, p.95; BDM V, 228). Set in brass ring, very fine and rare; in contemporary fitted case £150-£180