*France, The Rulers of France, a series of 77 silver medals by J. Dassier and others, comprising issues from Pharamond to Napoleon III, the medals up to the time of Louis Philippe I numbered consecutively from 1 to 72, the unnumbered pieces comprising the initial explanatory medal and a further four pieces marking the French Revolution, Napoleon II and Napoleon III as Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, President of the 2nd Republic in 1848, and as Emperor in 1852, each around 32mm diameter (cf. BDM I, 516), mainly very fine, some better and housed in a glazed frame (78 x 55cms.) so as to display both the obverses and reverses of the medals (lot)
Estimate: £1,000 - 1500