Watch List notes:

France, Kingdom (restored), temp. Louis Philippe I. Napoléon I Æ Medal. Commemorating the transfer of Napoléon's remains to the Invalides. Dated 1840. Dies by Montagny. NAPOLEON EMPEREUR, laureate head to right; JE DESIRE QUE MES CENDRES REPOSENT SUR LES RIVERS DE LA SEINE AU MILIEU DE CE PEUPLE QUE J'AI TANT AIMÉ in five lines below / Personification of France standing to right, holding out palm and laurel branches to troops ascending staircase on right, carrying a coffin; warship in background to right, the Invalides to left, eagle flying to right and carrying Napoléon above; MONTAGNY on ground line to right, 1840 in exergue. Bramsen 1988. 9.75g, 25mm, 12h.

Near Mint State.

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