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France > Bordeaux: Consistorial Synagogue of Bordeaux, 1810; by Louis Jaley; in pewter; size: 35mm; weight: 23.55g. Commemoriates the founding of the Sephardic Jewish Synagogue in the city. Obverse legend "Consistorial Synagogue of Bordeaux". Reverse legend "Built in 1810 under the reign of Napoleon the Great". On obverse there are signs of an earlier strike on the planchet (about 15 degree angle leftward); on reverse some light scratchs on upper left. This is one of only two known French Synagogue medals to have been struck before the fall of Napoleon; JM-71 & 138.