Watch List notes:

France, First Empire. Napoléon I Æ Medal. Commemorating the School of Mineralogy established at Mont Blanc. 1805. Dies by Andrieu and Brenet; Denon, mintmaster. NAPOLEON EMPEREUR., laureate head to right; DENON DIR. ANDRIEU F. in two lines below / Mont Blanc (as old man of colossal size) crouching facing and lifting large rock under which two miners are working; BRENET. F. and DENON. D. on ground line to left and right; ECOLE DES MINES DU MONT BLANC in two lines in exergue. Bramsen 471. 38.53g, 40mm, 12h.

Mint State.

From the R. T. Collection of Napoleonic Medals from the First French Republic and Empire;
Acquired from Phidias (Paris), vente numismatique.