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Auction: 392 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NY INC
Lot: 121

Collection of Napoleon AE Medals by Andrieu | France, First Republic, Napoleon, Coronation, AE Medal, 1804, by Andrieu and Jeuffroy, NAPOLEON EMPEREUR, laureate bust right, rev. LE SENAT ET LE PEUPLE, Politician and soldier raising a platform where Napoleon stands with aquila, law book to left, plough to right, 42mm, 30.27g (Bramsen 326); Capitulation of Ulm & Memmingen, AE Medal, 1805, by Andrieu and Jaley, NAPOLEON EMP. ET ROI., laureate bust right, rev. Napoléon driving galloping biga to right, being crowned by Victory flying to left above, holding palm frond and wreath; two figures of Ulm and Memmingen kneel to left below, XVII . OCTUBRE . MDCCCV CAPITULATION D'ULM . DE MEMMINGEN LX MILLE . PRISINNIENE, in exergue in four lines, 42mm, 37.87g (Bramsen 433); Annexation of Liguria to France, AE Medal, 1805, by Andrieu and Brenet, rev. Napoléon standing facing, head to right, embracing Liguria, 42mm, 38.22g (Bramsen 422); Confederation of Rhine, AE Medal, 1806, by Andrieu and Brenet, rev. Fourteen German princes standing, their hands on fasces topped by eagle, 42mm, 39.06g (Bramsen 534); Conquest of Silesia, AE Medal, 1807, by Andrieu, rev. Victory seated to left, engraving tablet with sword, while Pax stands to left in the background, looking over her shoulder; column composed of seven crowns, 42mm, 38.20g (Bramsen 635); Commemorating the orphans of the Légion d'Honneur, AE Medal, 1810, by Andrieu and Depaulis, rev. orphan seated in front of grave, holds book, ORPHELINES DE LA LEGION D'HONNEUR MDCCCX, in exergue in three lines, 42mm, 31.89g (Bramsen 980); Battle of Moscow, AE Medal, 1812, by Andrieu and Jeuffroy, rev. French Hussar on horseback riding right, raising sword and trampling two fleeing Russian soldiers, 42mm, 37.10g (Bramsen 1162; Julius 2528);Capture of Vilnius, AE Medal, 1812, by Andrieu, revall with some very faint contact marking, yet mostly with handsomely lustrous fields to brown surfaces, extremely fine (8)

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$525

Starting price
$400