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LOT 3561
France. Time of Louis Philippe I AE Medal. Dated 1838. Commemorative Medal of the Life and Deeds of Napoléon I. Designs by Armand Auguste Caqué.
NAPOLEON EMPEREUR DES FRANÇAIS ROI D'ITALIE, bust to right, in military uniform; CAQUÉ. F. 1838 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. Bramsen 1975; Julius 3982. Extremely Fine.(63gr, 51mm, 12h.).
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From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the mid 1980s.
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