Historical and Art Medals

Colonne du Département de la Seine, 1800, a copper medal by N.M. Gatteaux, conjoined busts of the three Consuls, Napoleon, Cambacérès and le Brun right, rev. legend in 9 lines, 60mm (Bramsen 64; BDM II, 210); Triomphe de la Vérité sur le Jésuitisme, 1830, a copper medal by J.A. Pingret, bust of La France left, rev. scales and wreath, 40mm (BDM –); Inauguration of the Chapel of St Ferdinand, 1846, a copper medal by A. Borrel, 26mm (BDM I, 223 [dated to 1844]); Death of Napoleon III at Chislehurst, 1873, a plated bronze medal by C.T., 32mm (BHM –); octagonal silver jetons (2), for the Banque de France, 1800, and the Avocats of Louis XVIII, by B. Andrieu, 36 and 34mm [6]. Second and third extremely fine, others about very fine and better (£50-70)