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LOT 4219
France. Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczynska AE Medal. 5 September 1725. Marriage commemorative issue.
Designs by J. Duvivier. LUDOVICUS XV. REX CHRISTIANISS., draped bust to right, DU VIVIER in small lettering on truncation / MARIA REGIS STANISL. FIL. FR. ET NAV. REGINA. V. SEPT. M.DCC.XXV., draped bust to left; DU VIVIER in small lettering on truncation. Near Very Fine.(31.59, 41mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey, one of the global authorities on the confederate army in the US civil war; thence by descent to his grandson.
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