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Auction 49  5 Oct 2021
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Lot 1227

Starting price: 120 GBP
Price realized: 140 GBP
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France, Napoleon, the transfer of his body from St. Helena to Paris, it's journey through Rouen, copper medal, 1840, by A. J. Depaulis, SAINTE HÉLÈNE V MAI MDCCCXXI, laur. head of Napoleon on his death bed, rev. S.A.R. LE PRINCE DE JOINVILLE COMMANDANT DE L'EXPEDITION, the coffin on the decorated paddle steamer, La Dorade, passes through the triumphal arch erected at Rouen, on edge: CUIVRE, 63.5mm. (Bramsen 1980; Julius 3993), slight edge bruise (reverse 10 o'clock), otherwise extremely fine with hints of original redness
bt. A. H. Baldwin & Sons, Commemorative Medals list, Spring 2003 (371).
The obverse exergual legend reads, JE DESIRE QUE MES CENDRES REPOSENT SUR LES BORDS DE LA SEINE AU MILIEU DE CE PEOPLE FRANÇAISE QUE J'AI TANT AIMÉ.
(150-200 GBP)
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