British and World Coins. Tokens and Historical Medals

Société Française de Photographie, c.1900, a silver award medal by E.A. Soldi-Colbert, conjoined busts of Niepce and Daguerre right, reverse legend in and around wreath, named (Médaille Ferrier, M. Eugène Trutat, 1906), 50mm (CGMP p.365; Simmons FPL 13, –; cf. BDW 3, 190). Very fine (£40-50)

The obverse type originated with Soldi-Colbert’s medal for the 50th anniversary of the invention of photography, issued by the Monnaie in 1889