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LOT 3572
France. Louis XVIII AE Medal. Dated 1815. Paris mint. Commemorative issue of Tomb of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Dies by Jean-Bertrand Andrieu.
LVDOVICVS • XVIII FRANC • ET • NAV • REX, bare head to right; ANDRIEU F• on truncation, DE PUYMAURIN DIREXIT below / CORP. LUD. XVI. M. ANT. CONJ. REG. SEPU. REDDITA, the tomb of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, surmounted by the crown of France, under a fleur-de-lis drape, flanked by Piety and Religion, in tears; PIETAS FRATERNA. 1815 and DE PUYMAURIN D. in three lines in exergue. Cf. Collignon 47. Near Extremely 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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