Watch List notes:

FRANCE, Premier République. Consulat. Napoléon Bonaparte. Premier Consul, 1799-1804. AR Medal (50mm, 72.73 g, 12h). The Restoration of the Roman Catholic Church in France. By Andrieu. Dated 18 Germinal L'An 10 (8 April AD 1802). NAPOLEON BONAPARTE PREMIER CONSUL, bare head right / RÉTABLISSEMENT DU CULTE, France advancing right, holding the mirror of Prudence, taking hand of the Catholic Church, seated left in ruins of cathedral; cross and open book to right; to left façcade of Notre Dame; in background, pillar surmounted by rooster standing right and shield emblazoned with thunderbolt; LE XVIII GERMINAL AN X in exergue. Bramsen 213. In NGC encapsulation graded MS 65. Large format medal in gem multicolored patina and fully prooflike surfaces.


Ex Irving Goodman Collection (Superior Stamp & Coin, 2 June 1996), lot 3623.