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LOT 3556
France. First Empire, Napoléon I AE Restrike Medal. Dated 1816, but struck after circa 1880. Commemorative issue on the Exile of Napoléon I on St Helena, Milano.
NAPOLEONE IMPERATORE E RE, laureate head of Napoléon I to right, nine stars forming crown above, laurel branch and palm branch tied together below, broken wheel of Fortune to lower left / NON DI LUI MA DI CHI LO TRADI IMAGO, Prometheus chained to rock, vulture gnawing at his body; 1816 below. Cf. Bramsen 1785; cf. Julius 3580. Extremely Fine.(219gr, 77mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the mid 1980s.
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