Baldwin & Sons
Auction 90 24 September 2014
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, France, Louis XIII (1601-1610-1643), Silvered-bronze Jeton, 1618, Nürnberg, crowned child standing in armour, reads LVDOV IIII in error, rev Mars and Minerva, between them a child and above, a dove descends with crown, PROPAGO IMPERI, 27.5mm (Dugn 3753; de la Tour 804). Fine.
The reverse clearly derived from Guillaume Dupré's design of 1603, with the same legend and Henri IV as Mars and Marie de Medici as Minerva with, between them, the infant Dauphin, foot on dolphin and placing helmet on head. The listing in Dugniolle was 'corrected' by a Mr Cumont, Revue Belge de Numismatique, 1898, pp.196-199, dating it to 1678 and calling it a satirical jeton struck in Dordrecht and making reference to an illigitimate child of Louis XIV (and there would be several possibilities!).
Estimate: £60-80
The reverse clearly derived from Guillaume Dupré's design of 1603, with the same legend and Henri IV as Mars and Marie de Medici as Minerva with, between them, the infant Dauphin, foot on dolphin and placing helmet on head. The listing in Dugniolle was 'corrected' by a Mr Cumont, Revue Belge de Numismatique, 1898, pp.196-199, dating it to 1678 and calling it a satirical jeton struck in Dordrecht and making reference to an illigitimate child of Louis XIV (and there would be several possibilities!).
Estimate: £60-80