Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
September 2021 Hong Kong Auction 2-7 Oct 2021
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ANNAM. Annam - France - French Indo-China. Hanoi Exposition Bronze Award Medal, 1887. Paris Mint. CHOICE UNCIRCULATED.
By E. A. Oudine. Diameter: 72mm; Weight: 172.05 gms. Obverse: REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE, head of Concordia left, wearing diadem and floral and grain wreath; star above; Reverse: PROTECTORAT DE L'ANNAM ET DU TONKIN, HANOI / EXPOSITION / DE 1887 in three lines within wreath composed of oak and laurel branches. Edge: [cornucopia] BRONZE. A large and impressive piece, this light chestnut brown specimen offers great relief and some underlying brilliance. Quite SCARCE and alluring, and emanating from a time at which the Protectorate of Annam and Tonkin would be consolidated into a reorganized colonial possession of French Indo-China.
Estimate: $150 - $300
By E. A. Oudine. Diameter: 72mm; Weight: 172.05 gms. Obverse: REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE, head of Concordia left, wearing diadem and floral and grain wreath; star above; Reverse: PROTECTORAT DE L'ANNAM ET DU TONKIN, HANOI / EXPOSITION / DE 1887 in three lines within wreath composed of oak and laurel branches. Edge: [cornucopia] BRONZE. A large and impressive piece, this light chestnut brown specimen offers great relief and some underlying brilliance. Quite SCARCE and alluring, and emanating from a time at which the Protectorate of Annam and Tonkin would be consolidated into a reorganized colonial possession of French Indo-China.
Estimate: $150 - $300