Watch List notes:

Medals by Subject, Transport: 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 262, this piece), choice mint state
*ex Captain Ernest W. Swan Collection, Glendining [in conjunction with A. H. Baldwin], 17 April 1986 (lot 262);
*ex Baldwin's vault.
The railway was opened by President Louis Napoleon on 1 June, 1851. Armand-Auguste Caqué (1793 – 1881).