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LOT 3563
France. Louis XIV AE Restrike Medal. Dated 1687 but struck after 1880. Commemorative issue of Château de Versailles. Dies by Michel Molart.
LVDOVICVS★MAGNVS★REX★GALLIARVM★INVICTISSIMVS, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to left (68th effigy by Michel Molart), MOLART★F★ below / COLVIT MAGIS OMNIBVS VNAM, facade of the Chateau of Versailles as seen from the rear gardens; VERSALLIAE •1•6•8•7• in two lines below. French Mint Catalog - VOL I -205-H/B451. Good Very Fine. In original case.(161gr, 71mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the mid 1980s.
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