Watch List notes:

Commemorative Medals, Foreign Medals, France, Louis XIV (1638-1643-1715), the Académie Française installed in the Louvre, copper medal, 1673, by Michel Molart [or Mollart] (1641–1713), laureate and armoured bust of the king l., LVDOVICVS MAGNVS REX GALLIARVM INVICTISSIMVS, rev. the façade of the Louvre, MAIESTATI AC ÆTERNIT GALL IMPERII SACRVM, dated M.DC.LXXIII and signed in exergue, a 73mm. medal struck on an 80mm. cast flan, edge plain, nearly extremely fine but a striking flaw runs from the M of MAGNVS to where his neck meets the breast plate of his armour (and on reverse), an extremely rare and contemporary striking
(250-300 GBP)