Details
LOT 3560
France. Time of Louis Philippe I AE Medal. Dated 1830 (but struck circa 1840). Paris mint. Commemorative issue of return of Napoléon's I coffin to Paris. Designs by Jean-Pierre Montagny.
HIST. DE LA REVOLUTION. DE L'EMPIRE DE LA RESTAURATION ET DE LA MON. DE 1830., laureate head to right; PUBLIÉ PAR POURRAT FRÈRES A PARIS. in two lines below / The arrival of Napoléon I's ashes at Les Invalides: Soldiers, bearing the coffin of Napoléon, mounting stairs to right to platform strewn with wreathes upon which stands France left, holding sceptre, garland, palm fronds and olive branch; behind, Genius stands facing, head to left, holding reversed torch, wreath, and tablet decorated with monogram of Napoleon and set on cippus decorated with winged hour glass; garlanded ground line below; in background to left, Hardouin-Mansart's Dome of Les Invalides, to right, the Belle Poule (the frigate that brought Napoléon's remains back from Saint Helena); above, Napoléon on eagle with radiance behind; MONTAGNY FECIT. below. Collignon 1233; Bramsen 1986. Near Extremely Fine.(78gr, 52mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the mid 1980s.
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