1791 Lafayette Constituent Assembly Deputy Obverse Cliche. White metal, 36 mm. Fuld LA.1791.8. MS-60 (PCGS).

Plain edge. By Rambert Dumarest. Struck at Soho by Boulton and Watt for the Monneron Freres, Paris. A dramatic obverse trial of this type, deeply impressed in a splash of molten tin (likely with lead added) and then trimmed to a broad, round shape. Silver gray surfaces are somewhat matte-like and oxidized, but attractive and crisply detailed. The broad size allows for a view of some of the details outside of the die edge. Only a few trivial lines are seen. A rare and unusual Boulton trial, only the second one on this issue Mr. Margolis recorded. The first, seen 24 years before he bought this one, is in the following lot.

From the Richard Margolis Collection. Earlier from Bergerac's (Aurele Biraben) Paris auction of March 2010, lot 329.

Estimate: $500