Coins and Historical Medals

FRANCE, Les Vaches, a silver award medal by A. Erdmann and A. Rivet for the Comice Agricole du Canton N.-O. de Saumur, named (Mr Louis Mayaud, Conseiller d’Arrondissement, 1901), 44mm; Le Cheval Fougueux, a silver award medal by A. Rivet for the Comice Agricole du Canton N.-O. de Saumur, named (Mr Merlet, Senateur de Maine & Loire), 44mm [2]. Good very fine, bright £60-£80

Marie-Louis-Jules Mayaud (1855-1919), mayor of Saumur, Conseiller général du Maine-et-Loire; Jules Merlet (1830-1921), prefect of Maine-et-Loire 1873-6, mayor of Martigné-Briand, Conservative deputy for Maine-et-Loire 1885-9, senator 1891-1920