British and World Coins. Tokens and Historical Medals

Inauguration of the Prisons de Fresnes-lès-Rungis, 1898, a bronze plaque by L.-O. Roty, triptych of views inside the prison, reverse rehabilitated prisoner with his wife and baby walking away from the prison, 80 x 59mm (PBE 871; Coll. R. Marx 76; Classens 39; BDM V, 238-9; Jones, Art of the Medal, 324;cf. BDW 13, 774). Very fine, rare (£30-40)

Frenes-lès-Rungis, dép. Val-de-Marne