305, Lot: 447. Estimate $100. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Premier Empire. Napoléon. 1804-1814. AR Medal (41mm, 34.92 g, 12h). The establishment of the School of Mineralogy at Mont Blanc. By J. P. Droz and N. G. A. Brenet. Struck 1805. NAPOLEON EMPEREUR, Laureate head right / Mont Blanc (as old man of colossal size), crouching facing and lifting large rock under which two miners are working; in two lines in exergue, ECOLE DES MINES DU/MONT BLANC. Bramsen 471. EF, brown surfaces.