CNG 93, Lot: 1909. Estimate $300. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Premier République. Consulat. 1799-1804. AR Medal (38mm, 34.02 g, 6h). Commemorating the Laying of the First (Foundation) Stone by Alexandrine Louise Eugenie Hulot d’Oseray, wife of Jean Victor Marie Moreau, General-in-Chief of the Army of the Rhine. Dually dated 5 Vendémiaire (27 September) L’An 10 de la République and 1801 (in Roman numerals). ET PROTEGIT ET COLIT ARTES (she protects and cultivates the arts), Minerva seated right on chair, surrounded by various implements of the fine arts, holding spear and extending hand; date in exergue / CETTE 1(superscript RE with – underneath) PIERRE/À ETÉ POSÉE PAR/L(superscript SE with – underneath) EUG(superscript IE with – underneath) HULOT EPOUSE/DE VICT(superscript OR) MOREAU G(superscript AL with – underneath)/EN CHEF DE L´ARMRHIN LE 5 VEND(superscript RE with – underneath)/AN 10 DE LA RE-FR in seven lines. Unpublished. EF, toned. Unique.

Ex Weil (24 June 2010), lot 73.