British and World Coins. Tokens and Historical Medals

R. Waldeck-Rousseau, 1884, a plated bronze electrotype plaque by F.-C.-V. de Vernon, bust right, reverse robed female representing Justice with scroll, two blacksmiths shake hands at right, 99 x 70mm (PBE 955; BDM VI, 241). Minor rim knocks on reverse, otherwise very fine, rare (£60-80)

Forrer dates this to 1900. Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau (1846-1904), Minister of the Interior 1881-5, initiated the law legalising trade unions in France in 1884