British and World Coins. Tokens and Historical Medals

The French Youth to Michel Chevreul on his 100th Birthday, 1886, a bronze medal by L.-O. Roty, bust right with wavy hair, reverse female student with seated figure of Chevreul, 69mm (Coll. R. Marx 14; PBE 840; CGMP p.359; BDM V, 231; Baxter 32; cf. BDW 13, 748 and 18, 395). Extremely fine (£30-40)

Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889), chemist and member of the Académie des Sciences, lived to the remarkable age of 103