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Auction: 4023 - English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals (incl. Railway Medals)
Lot: 468

France, St. Etienne to Lyon Railway, 1826, AR 36, by N. P. Tiolier, two allegorical figures seated, Mercury flying above, rev. conjoined shields (M.105; Swan cat. 241), good extremely fine; Lamartine and Ledru-Rollin satirical medal, 1836, Pb. 45, an early engine with tender and a passenger coach above risquons - tout! rev. inscription (M.136; Swan cat. 258; Salomons House cat.370), thin flan, nearly extremely fine, rare (2) Alphonse Lamartine (1790-1869) French poet and statesman together with Alexander Ledru-Rollon (1807-74) French politician, were both opponents of the Orleanist regime

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