Republic silver "Beginning of the French Panama Canal" Medal 1880 AU Details (Cleaned) NGC, Plowman-CM5.2. By Louis-Oscar Roty. 35mm. Issued to those who had purchased a certain amount of French Canal Company stock. PERCEMENT DE L'ISTHME DE PANAMA Female (France) in center with hands on shoulders of personification of Pacific and Atlantic oceans both standing on fish, ships in canal behind, lighthouses on shore / CANAL / DE PANAMA / COMPAGNIE UNIVERSELLE / DU CANAL INTER OCEANIQUE / 7 8 ET 9 DECEMBRE 1880 / A SES SOUSCRIPTEURS / LA BANQUE / PARISIENNE (Canal of Panama Universal Company of the Inter oceanic canal to its subscribers, the bank Parisian) in eight lines. Edge Cornucopiae ARGENT.

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