ROMAN IMPERIAL. Anonymous. Æ Cliché Medal (58mm, 9.99 g). By an uncertain medallist. Struck 19th or 20th century. Emperor riding left in quadriga being guided by soldier standing left, head right, holding trophy; in background, column surmounted by trophy flanked by two captives / Incuse of obverse. VF, pierced.
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AUSTRIA, Holy Roman Empire. Franz I. Emperor, 1745-1765. AR Medal (22mm, 2.31 g, 12h). Visit of the Imperial Couple to the Mines of Lower Hungary. Wien (Vienna) mint. Unsigned, but by Mathias Donner. Dated 1751 (in Roman numerals). Crowned busts of Franz I and Maria Theresia vis-à-vis / ADVENTUS/AUGUSTI/IN FODINAS/HUNGARIAE/INFERIORIS/MDCCLI in six lines; crossed pick and sledge hammer below. J. Boublik, Coins and medals of the emperor Francis Stephen of Lorraine (Prague, 2011) 86; cf. Julius 1840 (example in gold). EF, toned.From the Macy Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 405 (6 September 2017). lot 692.
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FRANCE, Premier Empire. Napoléon I, with Marie and Napoléon II. 1804-1814. AR Medallet (15mm, 2.89 g, 12h). The Birth of the King of Rome (Napoléon II). By Andrieu. Denon, director. Dated 20 March 1811 (in Roman numerals). Jugate busts of Napoléon, laureate, and Marie, diademed, right / NAPOLEON FRANÇOIS JOSEPH CHARLES ROI DE ROME, bare bust of the infant Napoléon II left; XX MARS MDCCCXI in exergue. Bramsen 1101. EF, toned.From the Macy Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 380 (10 August 2016), lot 635.
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FRANCE, Royal (Restored). temp. Louis Philippe. 1830-1848. CU Medal (32mm, 14.37 g, 'h). Kings of France series, No. 52. Charles V, 1354-1380. From dies attributed to Armand-Auguste Caqué. Struck circa 1830 or slightly later. Crowned bust left / Multi-line inscription noting number in series, vital statistics, relationship in series and letter. Cf. Collignon 1559 (for larger issue of similar type). EF, brown patina, traces of green deposits, light scratches on reverse.From the Macy Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 374 (11 May 2016), lot 709.
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FRANCE, Royal (Restored). temp. Louis Philippe. 1830-1848. Æ Medal (43mm, 35.08 g, 12h). Société Montyon et Franklin. By Barré. Dated 1833. Jugate busts of Benjamin Franklin and Baron de Montyon left; to left, FRANKLIN/ BIENFAISANCE DE GENIE; to right, MONTYON/ GENIE DE LA BIENFAISANCE / SOCIÉTÉ MONTYON ET FRANKLIN POUR LES PORTRAITS DES HOMMES UTILES, LES/ SOUSCRIPTEURS/ ASSOCIÉS POUR/ PROPAGER L'HISTOIRE/ DES BIENFAITEURS/ DE L'HUMANITÉ/ 1833. Collignon 1079. EF, brown surfaces, two small spots on reverse.From the Macy Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 407 (11 October 2017), lot 719; Classical Numismatic Review XL.1 (Spring 2015), no. 402986; Künker eLive 33 (11 February 2015), lot 2220.The present medal was struck for the promotion of a two-volume set of illustrated biographical texts issued by the Société Montyon et Franklin, titled Potraits et histoire des hommes utiles, published in 1833. The text is today available online.
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AUSTRIA, Holy Roman Empire. Karl VII. Emperor, 1742-1745. AR Medal (30mm, 9.81 g, 12h). On His Death, 20 January 1745. By Georg Wilhelm Kittel (1694-1769). Dated 1745. CAROL . VII . ROM . IMP. NAT . 1697 CORONAT 1742 ., laureate bust right; KITTEL on truncation of bust / TERMINVS LABORVM., imperial coffin, decorated with skull and crossbones and surmounted by imperial regalia, set on ornate base inscribed D · M ·/CAROLI · VII; to left, skeleton standing facing, cutting head of flower to right with scythe; OBIIT . D . 20. IAN ./1745 in two lines in exergue. Montenuovo 1666; F&S 4297; Forrer III, p. 168. VF, toned.From the HJR Collection. Ex Rauch 80 (1 June 2007), lot 1539.
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BELGIUM. temp. Albert I. 1909-1934. Silvered Æ Medal (69mm, 100.98 g, 12h). On the Assistance for Weak Children, Antwerp, 15 November 1915. By Edward Deckers; manufactured by Fonson & Co., Brussel. Dated 1915. Personification of Assistance with children huddling around and holding infant in arms, standing left, warding off Death, who skulks away to the left; tree in background; Edward Deckers below children / ASSISTANCE A L´ENFANCE DÉBILE – STEUN AAN HET ZWAKKE KIND –, ANVERS/15 NOVEMBRE/1915 in three lines. Edge: FONSON & Co. See Leipziger Münzhandlung 6, lot 4818 (for an example in bronze only). Good VF, toned.Ex Elsen 104 (13 March 2010), lot 1378.
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FRANCE, Royal (Restored). temp. Louis XVIII. 1814-1824. AR Medal (32.5mm, 12.44 g, 12h). Freemason Lodge issue. Manufactured after 1815. L DE S J DE L´ UNION DE CŒURS R R O DE GENEVE, mantled pair of arms: main one is shield decorate with skull and M O Æ below; above, oval shield decorated with three hearts joined by intertwining ribbon; triple pellet stops / DIRECTOIRE DE BOURGOGNE · ET · HELVETIE, phoenix arising from flames; banner below inscribed PERIT UT VIVAT. W.T.R Marvin, The Medals of the Masonic Fraternity Described and Illustrated (Boston, 1880), p. 29, XXX. Near EF, toned, with original suspension loop attached. Very rare.From the HJR Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 213 (7 March 2013), lot 4298.
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FRANCE, Royal (Restored). Louis Philippe. 1830-1848. Cast Pewter Medal (84mm, 62.60 g, 12h). On the 1832 Paris Cholera Epidemic. After a design by E. Rogat. Dated 1832. Aesculapius, warding off winged Death, who holds a victim left, standing right, holding wrist of woman seated left, embracing child; behind, woman standing weeping with E. ROGAT 1832 behind; in background, classical physicians, one holding a smoking bowl; E. ROGAT 1832 behind weeping woman; INVASION DU CHOLÉRA/EN 1832 in two lines in exergue / Incuse of obverse. See here (for medal in bronze). Good VF, toned, traces of green deposits in devicesholed for mounting.Purchased from Richard Meignien at the Syndicat National des Experts Numismates et Numismates Professionnels (SNENNP), 15 October 2005.
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FRANCE, Royal (Restored) to Second Empire. Louis Philippe to Napoléon III. 1830-1870. AR Medal (33mm, 11.52 g, 12h). Freemason Lodge issue. By Jakin and Boaz. Manufactured after 1845-1860. (star) S CHAP DE LA P ÉGALITÉ A LA VALLÉE DE ROUEN, pelican feeding its young with its blood; behind, crossed swords and cross decorated with rose; radiant tetragrammaton above; around, additional Masonic symbols: tower, table of shew-bread, Ten Commandments, menorah; triple pellet stops / Two skeletons, the left holding shepherd's staff and level over open book set on altar, the right crowned and holding scepter, standing vis-à-vis; radiant tetragrammaton above; on either side, column set on base: the left decorated with a J and a compass; the right with a B and a carpenter's square; all set on raised tile platform with seven curved steps leading to it . W.T.R Marvin, The Medals of the Masonic Fraternity Described and Illustrated (Boston, 1880), p. 51, XCII. EF, toned, light marks.From the HJR Collection. Ex Maison Platt FPL (December 2005), lot 3584.
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FRANCE, Deuxième République. 1848-1852. Tin Medal (70mm, 63.86 g, 12h). Société des Droits de l´Homme, Section des sapeurs de la mort. Dated 1848. Section des sapeurs de la mort, four Liberty caps around skull within quadrate frame; 1848. in exergue / Barbe de Capucin chef .1848, République f.se in exergue, cross pommée over cross pattée; eye on each bar. Collignon –; see Les premiers jours de la République – Révélations curieuses et inédites sur quelques-uns des faits qui se sort accomples en Mars, Avril et Mai 1848, [p]ar un ex Chef de section de la SOCIÉTÉ DES DROITS DE L'HOMME (Paris, 1850), p. 68 (for historical background). EF. Extremely rare.Ex iNumis 15 (25 March 2011), lot 2540.
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FRANCE, Deuxième République. 1848-1852. Tin Medal (70mm, 60.50 g, 12h). On the Proposed Assassination of General Nicolas Changarnier and André Dupin, November 1850. Dated 1850. (annulet) CONSEIL DES VINGT-SIX (annulet), pair of skull-and-crossbones; A/L'UNANIMITÉ/CHANGARNIER/ET DUPIN, in four lines above; CONDAMNÉS/A MORT. in two lines below / (annulet) SOCIÉTÉ DES AMIS DE L'ORDRE ET DE L'HUMANITÉ, NOVEMBRE/1850./RUE DES SAUSAIES/FAUBOURG/ST HONORÉ in five lines. C. Verly. Catalogue du musée archéologique et numismatique de la ville de Lille (Lille, 1860), 1378. EF, a few edge marks.Purchased from Stéphane Palombo, 27 September 2007.
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FRANCE, temp. Troisième République. Samuel-Jean Pozzi. 1846-1918. Cast Æ Medal (67mm, 138.70 g, 12h). By J.C. Chaplain. Dated 1905. PROFESSEUR · SAMUEL · POZZI · DE L´ACMIE DE · MEDECINE, mantled bust left, wearing the Commandeur degree of the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur; J · C ·/CHAPLAIN/1905 / TRAITE DE GYNECOLOGIE, Gynecology, wearing laurel wreath, standing slightly left and embracing nude plaintive woman seated to right on examining table and warning off skeleton, wearing shroud, standing behind to right; tray with medical implements in front of examining table and to left of Gynecologie. Edge: (cornucopia) BRONZE. See Baldwin 88, lot 3149 (for another example). EF, minor edge nick.Purchased from Michael Agathe, 16 March 2011.
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FRANCE, Cinquième République. 1959-present. Æ (96mm, 366.40 g, 12h). Calendar Medallion. By Raymond Joly. Dated 1967. · LE · TEMPS · CETTE · IMAGE · MOBILE · DE · L´IMMOBILE · ETERNITE ·, first six months of calendar around Father Time in kneeling-running stance right; 1967 above, RJ below knee; sun above, moon to left, Saturn to right; field decorated with stars / · LE · TEMPS · QUI · DEVORE · TOUT · DEVORERA · LE · TEMPS ·, final six months of caledar around large and complex clockwork mechanism containing half-length figure of skeleton facing slightly right and radiate half-length figure of Resurrection, holding flowers and raising hand. Edge: (cornucopia) BRONZE. Catalogue général illustré des éditions de la monnaie de Paris 4:1043; see Schulmann 355, lot 949 (for anther example). EF, a couple of small spots of corrosion on reverse, a few edge marks.Purchased from Michael Agathe, 18 October 2015.
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GERMANY, Braunschweig (Herzogtum). 1815 -1918. Æ Medal (35mm, 16.20 g, 12h). On the Centenary of Friedrich Wilhelm's Creation of the Schwarze Braunschweiger (Black Brunswickers). Dually dated 1809 and 1909. FRIEDRICH WILHELM HERZOG ZU BRAUNSCHWEIG, bust left; star below / Skull and crossbones set on banner inscribed PENINSULA set over crossed laurel branches; below, 1809 - 1909. Brockmann 546. EF, attractive brown surfaces, with original suspension loop attached.Ex Monasterium 21 (4 December 2006), lot 599.
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GERMANY, Köln (Stadt). Cast Æ Plaquette (111x165mm, 467.20 g, 12h). Dated 1995. O TANNE NBAUM, decorated Christmas tree set in stand with trunk proceeding upwards through eye socket, becoming part of the tree as well as the decoration with each outstretched hand holding candle; all within linear frame / Blank but for raised rectangular tablet; above, Christmas tree-shaped maker's mark ([elongated K/XXXX/[inverted T]) flanked by date. As made, light toning, light cleaning marks on obverse. Unusual satirical theme.Ex Simmons Gallery 61 (16 January 2013), lot 183.
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GERMANY, Kaiserreich. temp. Wilhelm II. 1888-1918. Cast FE Medal (73mm, 89.40 g, 12h). On Gabriele D'Annunzio Favoring the Entrance of Italy into the First World War on the Side of the Allies, 1915. By Hans Lindl. Dated Mai 1915. D'ANNUNZIO BEGEISTERT ITALIEN ZUM KRIEG, D'Annuzio, in evening dress, standing right on clouds, holding saber and speech; Below, crowds shout acclamations; MAI 1915 in exergue / VORBEREITUNG ZUM EINTRITT IN DEN WELTKRIEG (ornament), skeleton standing right on ground line, sharpening saber on grinding wheel; H L in exergue. See here (for an example in the Imperial War Museum). Good VF. Very rare.Presented as a gift to the collector from Jacques Palombo, 3 August 2012.
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GERMANY, Kaiserreich. temp. Wilhelm II. 1888-1918. Cast FE Medal (55mm, 58.89 g, 12h). The Sinking of the R.M.S. Lusitania. British copy issued by Gordon Selfridge after an Æ original by Karl Goetz. Dated 5 May 1915. KEINE BANN WARE!, the Lusitania sinking in heavy seas; DER GROSSDAMPFER/=LUSITANIA=/DURCH EIN DEUTSCHES/TAUCHBOOT VERSENKT/5 MAY 1915 in five lines in exergue / GESCHAFT UBER ALLES, skeleton standing left within ticket booth marked CUNA[RD]/LINIE and CUNARD above and to right, and FAHRKARTEN/AUSGABE below; to left, queue of passengers, one of whom reads a newspaper with the headline U/BOO[T]/GEFAH[R]; K • G in exergue. Burns, Commemoration 2a1; BHM –; Eimer 1941Ab; cf. Kienast 156 (for prototype). EF.
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GERMANY, Kaiserreich. temp. Wilhelm II. 1888-1918. Cast Æ Medal (57.5mm, 58.88 g, 12h). On the Abuse of Neutral Flags (Flaggenbetrug), 1915. By Karl Goetz. Dated 1915. Skeleton, wearing Admiral's uniform, standing on small sailing boat decorated with crowned lion's head and inscribed with name EDWARD GREY, holding flags of Italy and United States; Sir Edward Grey, wearing diplomatic attire, seated on deck and clutching mast; boat flies the flags of Holland, Spain and Denmark; 1915 in exergue / MIT/NEVTRALEN/– FLAGGEN –/HOHEITSGEBIETEND/STELLT SICH ZUR WEHR/DER - EDLE BRITE - DER/WELTMEERBEHERRSCHER/NACH SEERÆVBER SITTE in eight lines; below laurel wreath flanked by K G; all within life preserver inscribed HONI • SOIT • QUI • MAL • Y • PENSE –. Kienast 165. EF.Ex Meister & Sonntag 11 (26 May 2011), lot 1812.
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GERMANY, Kaiserreich. temp. Wilhelm II. 1888-1918. Cast Æ Medal (58mm, 66.52 g, 12h). On Britain's Formal Declaration of a Protectorate over Egypt, 17 December 1914. By Karl Goetz. Dated 1915. Sphinx right, head left, rising from thick base inscribed ÄGYPTEN/ERWACHT in two lines; in background, caravan left in front of pyramids; above, 1915 and star-and-crescent / SIR GREY ZEIG' DEINE MACHT!, facing bust of Sir Edward Grey, sweating and hands crossed before; behind, skeleton holding up hour glass. Edge: K · GOETZ. Kienast 166. EF. Later cast.Purchased from Simmons Gallery, 1 November 2014.
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