Coins and Historical Medals

Austria, Visit of Franz Joseph I to Egypt and the Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869, a restrike gilt-copper medal by the Vienna mint after J. Tautenhayn, bust right, rev. Egyptia seated left on sphinx, pyramids and ship at sides, 71mm, 146.28g (Hauser 652; Würzb. 2484; Horsky 3807; BDM VI, 37). Some trifling hairlines, otherwise as struck £100-£120