Auction: 4023 - English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals (incl. Railway Medals)
Lot: 472
France, inauguration of the Northern Railway, 1846, AE 26 (M.130; Swan cat. 255); inauguration of the railway from Paris to Strasbourg, 1852, AE 35 (M.145; Swan cat. 364); Paris to Lyon Railway, opening of the line from Chalon to Lyon, 1854, AR 37, by A. Caque, laureate head of Napoleon III left, rev. an early engine emitting smoke above inscription (M.153 bis; Swan cat. 270), all extremely fine (3)
Sold for
£90