Watch List notes:

SWITZERLAND, République et Canton de Genève. Genève. AR Medal (50mm, 59.33 g, 12h). Distribution to the Officers of the Swiss Garrison Sent to Genève Because of the French Invasion of Savoie, 1692-1697. Undated, but struck end of 17th century. (rosette) RESPVBLICA (rosette) GENEVENSIS (rosette) , civic coat-of-arms; above, radiate medallion inscribed IHS with Ω above / POST · TENEBRAS · LVX on banner, city view of Genève seen from aerial perspective above Lac Léman; above, civic-coat-of-arms within ornate frame over banner inscribed GENEVA · CIVITAS ·. See "Médailles genevoises décernées au 'secourssuisse' du xviie au xixe siècle," in SNR XVII (1911), 3. Toned, edge marks. EF.


Ex Numismatica Genevensis SA VI (30 November 2010), lot 942.