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Auction 169 12-13 Feb 2020
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World Historical Medals from Various Properties
FRANCE, Berger cherchant à lire une inscription sur une rocher du passage des Thermopyles [1875], a uniface plated bronze medal by L.-O. Roty, shepherd attempting to read inscription on rocks at Thermopylae, 75mm (Roty Compagnonnage, p.95; BDM V, 228). Set in brass ring, very fine and rare; in contemporary fitted case £150-£180
FRANCE, Berger cherchant à lire une inscription sur une rocher du passage des Thermopyles [1875], a uniface plated bronze medal by L.-O. Roty, shepherd attempting to read inscription on rocks at Thermopylae, 75mm (Roty Compagnonnage, p.95; BDM V, 228). Set in brass ring, very fine and rare; in contemporary fitted case £150-£180