Important British and World Coins, Tokens, Historial and Art Medals, Numismatic Books and Banknotes

France, Translation aux Invalides du Corps de Napoléon, 1840, a gilt-bronze medal by J.P. Montagny for Pourrat Frès, laureate bust of Napoleon right, rev. robed figure of France receiving the remains of Napoleon from an emissary from St Helena, Invalides and ship in background, eagle above, 53mm (Bramsen 1986; BDM IV, 129). Light scratches in obverse field, otherwise good very fine, the reverse very detailed, rare (£50-70)

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