LOT 3552
France. First Empire, Napoléon I AE Medal. 19th century AD. Commemorative Medal for the birth of his son, as King of Rome. Designs by Tommaso Mercandetti.
NAPOLEON FRANCORUM IMPERATOR ET ITALIAE REX ★, laureate head of Napoléon to left; T•MERCANDETTI•F•R•MDCCCX beneath truncation / XII•KAL•APRIL •MCCMXI, Mars, floating in a cloud, giving the child to Minerva, who is sitting in front of Trajan's Column inscribed: SENATVS.POP IMP. CAESAR TRAIANO. A MAX.TRIB. P. AD. DECLA MONS. ET. I.; at her side, Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf; above, eagle with spread wings holding olive branch in beak and thunderbolt in its talons, behind, the Colosseum on the left, the temple of Concordia inscribed: SQVE. ROMANVS VM. RESTITVIT in two lines on the right; ••••••••••••• AVREA CONDET SAECVLA QVIR VRSVS LATIO in two lines in exergue; ••T•MERCANDETTI•F•ROMAE••• below. Edge inscription: COPIE. Trésor de numismatique et de glyptique, p.98, pl.XLIX, n°10. Good Extremely Fine.(106gr, 65mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the mid 1980s.
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France. Fifth Republic AE Restrike Medal. 20th century AD. Commemorative issue of City d'Ajaccio and Napoléon Bonaparte. Dies by Marcel Courbier.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
VILLE D'AJACCIO, bust of Napoléon Bonaparte to left; COURBIER before / View of part of the city of Ajaccio and the sea, with the city's coat-of-arms and the silhouette of the Napoleonic eagle on the centre. Cf. CMP, Vol.4, p.467 E. 255gr, 76mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine.
From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the mid 1980s. -
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Great Britain. Hanover, Field-marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington WM Medal. Triply dated 1 May 1769, 18 June 1815, and 14 September 1852. Birmingham mint. Commemorative issue of Death of the Duke of Wellington. Dies by Allen & Moore.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
ARTHUR DUKE OF WELLINGTON., bust to left wearing military uniform; ALLEN & MOORE. BIRMM. below / BRITANNIA MOURNS HER HERO NOW AT REST, sarcophagus inscribed WELLINGTON BORN MAY 1. 1769 DIED SEPR 14.1852 in five lines; Britannia mourning to left, lion recumbent below, Victory placing wreath to right; A&M and WATERLOO JUNE 18. 1815 in two lines below. Eimer, Wellington 143; BHM 2476; Lamas 138. 39gr, 51mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine.
From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the mid 1980s. -
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Great Britain. Hanover, Time of George III Restrike AE Medal. Struck after an 1849 original. Royal mint. Commemorative Medal of 175th Anniversary of The Battle of Waterloo. Designs by Benedetto Pistrucci.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
Conjoined laureate and draped busts left of the allied sovereigns: George III, King of Great Britain, Franz II, Emperor of Austria, Alexander I, Tsar of Russia, and Wilhelm III, King of Prussia; around, allegorical and mythological allusions to the Treaty of Peace, which resulted from the Battle of Waterloo: above, Apollo driving quadriga to left, restoring the day; to upper right, the rainbow Zephyr and Iris following to right; to upper left, Gemini indicating the month in which the battle occurred; to right, Hercules seated to right upon rock, suppressing the Furies within the Cimmerian caverns below; to left, Themis, the protector of the Just, seated to left; to lower left, the Fates spinning the future, indicating that human actions will be governed by Justice alone; below, Night, the mother of the Fates, receding into darkness / Two equestrian figures, in classical attire and with the features of the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard von Blücher, being guided to the battle by Victory; around, the Battle of the Giants, being silenced from above by the thunder of Jupiter, driving facing quadriga. Cf. BHM 870; Eimer 2166 (not listed in AE); cf. Bramsen 2317. 131gr, 63mm, 12h.
Good Extremely Fine.
From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the mid 1980s.
