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LOT 3553
France. First Empire, Napoléon I SN Medal. 19th century AD. Commemorative Medal of the Life and Deeds of Napoléon I. Design by Massonnet.
NAPOLEON I EMPEREUR, bare head to right, MASSONNET. ÉDIT. below / NÉ 1769. CONSUL 1799. EMPEREUR 1804. MILAN, TURIN, LE CAIRE, ROME NAPLES, VIENNE, AMSTERDAM BERLIN, MADRID, LISBONNE, VARSOVIE, MOSCOU, CODE CIVIL 1804. ABDICATION 1814. ILE D'ELBE 1815. STE HELENE. MORT EN 1821 in twelve lines. Collignon 337. Very Fine.(43gr, 50mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the mid 1980s.
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