FRANCE. Salute to the Sun, (1900).
51x64mm (curved top) silver, by Georges Dupre. Maier 188. Obverse: An old man and a very small (and nude) boy, watching the sun rise in the watery distance. Reverse: Birds over landscape; lines from a poem by Alphonse de Lamartine. The rights to issue were purchased by the Paris Mint. NEARLY MINT STATE.