Watch List notes:

Medals by Subject, Railways: France, Louis Napoleon, the opening of the Paris to Dijon railway, copper medal, 1851, by Armand Caqué for Robineau, bust of Louis Napoleon l., rev. legend in 18 lines, 68mm. (Moyaux 143; Swan 261, this piece), choice mint state
*ex Captain Ernest W. Swan Collection, Glendining [in conjunction with A. H. Baldwin], 17 April 1986, lot 261 and Baldwin's vault
The railway was opened by President Louis Napoleon on 1 June, 1851. Armand-Auguste Caqué (1793 – 1881).