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Electronic Auction 395  12 April 2017
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Lot 522

Estimate: 100 USD
Price realized: 160 USD
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FRANCE, Royal (Restored). Louis XVIII. 1814-1824. Æ Medal (50.5mm, 45.13 g, 12h). Franco-America Convention of Navigation and Commerce. Paris mint. By Andrieu and Gayrard. De Puymaurin, director. Struck 1822 (though a later restrike). LVDOVICVS XVIII FRANC ET NAV REX, bare head right / GALLIA ET AMERICA FOEDERATA, personifications of France and the United States leaning on herm; prow in background; in exergue, NOVIS COMMERCIORVM PACTIS/ IVNCTAE. Collignon 363. Superb EF.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.

This medal celebrates a commerce treaty signed by Bayon Hyde de Neuville, representing Louis XVIII of France, and John Quincy Adams, representing the United States.
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