Auction Catalogue

25 November 1998

Starting at 1:00 PM

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British and World Coins. Tokens and Historical Medals

The Arts Club  40 Dover St  London  W1S 4NP

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Lot

№ 708

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25 November 1998

Hammer Price:
£55

Réédification de l’Hôtel de Ville, Paris, 1882, a bronze medal by J.-C. Chaplain, seated female figure of Paris indicating the rebuilt building, reverse arms of Paris, laurel branches below, 76mm (PBE 50; Coll. R. Marx 197; BDM I, 402). Extremely fine, nicely patinated, scarce (£40-50)

The rebuilding of the Town Hall took 6 years, from 1876 to 1882