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Medieval and World Sale 1  18 Aug 2022
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Lot 174

Estimate: 75 GBP
Price realized: 130 GBP
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France, Kingdom (restored), temp. Louis Philippe I. Napoléon Bonaparte, as Premier Consul, AR Medal. Dedicated to Napoléon by the Committee of Notaries of the Departments. Dated 1840 (Restrike, after 1st January 1880). Dies by Barre. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE PREMIER CONSUL, head to right; A. BARRE below neck truncation / COMITÉ DES NOTAIRES DES DÉPARTEMENTS, LOI DU XXV VENTOSE AN XI in four lines within wreath composed of olive and oak leaves; • MDCCCXL • in exergue. Edge inscription: cornucopiae and ARGENT. Bramsen 1999. 13.08g, 32mm, 12h.

Mint State; attractive old cabinet tone. An official restrike.

From the R. T. Collection of Napoleonic Medals from the First French Republic and Empire;
Ex Auktionen Münzhandlung Sonntag, Auction 30, 4 June 2019, lot 162.

The inscription within the wreath on this medal's reverse commemorates the law of the 25th day of the month of Ventose in the 11th year of the short-lived French Republican calendar (16 March 1803), which set down the status, obligations and ideals of the role of Notary within the French Republic.
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