British and World Coins. Tokens and Historical Medals

50th Anniversary of Cinematography, 1945, a bronze medal by R.B. Baron, bust of Louis-Jean Lumiere left, reverse roll of cine film, 63mm (CGMP p.89). About extremely fine (£30-40)

Issued by the Monnaie in 1946. Auguste Marie Lumiere (1862-1954) and his brother Louis-Jean (1864-1948), were the inventors of an early motion-picture projector and pioneer filmmakers. Louis-Jean developed the cinematographe at his father’s factory in Lyons. It was first demonstrated before a paying audience in Paris on 28 December 1895, when ten of the Lumiere brothers’ films were shown, including a comic sequence, L’Arroseur Arose