August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
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Description
FRANCE. Leon Gambetta Bronze Medal, 1883. Paris Mint. UNCIRCULATED.
Weight: 136.5 gms; diameter: 70mm. By JC Chaplain. Obverse: Bust of the bearded sitter in prominent bow tie, facing left, LEON GAMBETTA. 2 AVRIL 1838. 31 DECEMBRE 1882 around; Reverse: classical pedestal engraved on front with central fasces and initials France "R[EPUBLIQUE] F[RANÇAISE]" on either side, topped by an unfurling scroll. Behind an oak tree leaning left at 20-degree angle with roots encircling base of pedestal. Two angular bolts of lightning pass through an oak branch projecting left, and continue down to the ground, with Latin motto derived from Cicero's first Philippic (in quo populi iussa perpetuasque leges esse voluit, "as legislative acts of the people and permanently valid statutes", 1.17), QVO JVSSA POPVLI. MDCCCLXXXII to right and below. Rim: Stampled "Bronze" with Paris Mint cornucopia hallmark. Leon Gambetta (1838-82) was an Italo-French politician made famous as an early herald of the Third Republic and for his passionate, if partly futile, attempt to raise the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. He rose to become President of the Chamber of Deputies (1879-81), and then President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs for a brief two months prior to his premature death in a firearm accident in 1882. References: - Marx, Les médailleurs Française contemporains, [pl. 3, #8] - Mazerolle 1897, #23 (providing a date for the medal) - Deneken, J. C. Chaplain-Ausstellung Medaillen, 35 - Monnaie de Paris, 1967, #49, 97
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From the Stephen R. Parks Collection of Medallic Arts.
Estimate: $100.00- $200.00
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| Starting price | 60 USD |
