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Auction 27  19-22 January 2017
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Lot 1339

Starting price: 140 USD
Price realized: 150 USD
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FRANCE: LOT of 8 medals, 1) AE medal by Jean Warin (1606-1672), 51mm, bust right wearing biretta and robes, signed below, ARMANVS IOAN CARD DE RICHELIEV // globe within a circle of stars, guided by a winged genius, MENS SIDERA VOLVIT, later Paris mint striking, 2) AE medal by Dollin, 41mm, Birth of the Duke of Berry, Louis XIV bust right // FELICITAS DOMUS AUGUSTAE B. with Dauphin left, below the busts of his three sons, the Duke of Burgundy, the Duke of Anjou and the Duke of Berry, later Paris mint striking, 3) AE medal by Emile Rogat, 52mm, 1851, À N. COLLET SES ELEVES RECONNAISSANTS around bust right, date and engraver name below // SOCIETE CHORALE / GALIN-PARIS-CHEVE / COURS DE BERCY in three lines in a wreath of oak leaves, 4) AE medal by Louis-Félix Chabaud & Louis-Alexandre Bottée, 50mm, 1889, EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE around seated figure // ADMINISTRATION / DES / MONNAIES ET MEDAILLES around scene of the exhibition grounds, Parisian view showing the École militaire, the Champ-de-Mars, the Eiffel Tower and the Trocadéro, CENTENAIRE DE 1789 on ribbon at center 5) BELGIUM, Honneur aux defendeurs d'Arras, 1917, a large bronze medal by A. Mayeur, Belgic lion with standard, rats running below // HONTE AUX VANDALES 1914-1918, damaged buildings, 60mm, struck at the Paris mint, 6) AE medal, 68mm, 1918, Reconquest of Alsace and Lorraine, busts of Poincaré and Clemenceau left // France between Alsace and Lorraine in a triumphal chariot surrounded by soldiers, METZ - STRASBOURG / DECEMBRE 1918 below, 7) AE medal by Louis Patriarch, 59mm, Effigy of Victory holding in her hand an olive branch and a laurel branch, above inscription LA VICTOIRE // troops passing under the Arc de Triomphe during the victory parade in Paris on July 14, 1919, 8) AE art deco medal by Pierre-Victor Dautel, 45mm, 1927, POVR TOVJOVRS above agrarian landscape, a French soldier and an American soldier holding hands // VISITE DE L'AMERICAN LEGION EN FRANCE Ships arriving from the Statue of Liberty to France, landscape of Paris with the Arc de Triomphe and its flame, flanked by SEPTEMBRE - MCMXXVII, all in EF or better quality, retail value $350, lot of 8 medals.

Estimate: 175-250 USD
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