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Auction: 392 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NY INC
Lot: 120

France, Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755), AE Medal, 1753, by J. A. Dassier, CAROL . DE SECONDAT BRO DE MONTESVIEV ., bare head left, rev. HINC IVRA, Justice standing looking upon Faith, 1753. IN EXERGUE, 61mm, 112.33g (Eisler II 370/1; Trésor pl XLVII, 6), lightly contact marked and with the softest of rub to the top of the hair, nevertheless with a glossy lustre within the brown fields, about extremely fine; 'Molière' Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, AE Commemorative Medal, for the Great Men of France Series, 1816, by Gatteaux, POQUELIN DE MOLIERE, capped bust left, rev. NE A PARIS EN M. DC. XX. MORT EN M. DC. LXXIII., 40mm, 36.66g, scattering of faint contact marks, otherwise with a ful glossy lustre in the legends, extremely fine (2)