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317, Lot: 551. Estimate $100.
Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE. François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire. Writer, historian, and philosopher, 1694-1778. Æ Medal (40mm, 35.85 g, 12h). Dated 1817 (but a later cast). AROUET DE VOLTAIRE, bust right / NÉ/ A CHATENAY PRÈS PARIS EN M.DC.XCIV./ MORT/ EN M.DCC.LXXVIII/ GALERIÉ MÉTALLIQUE/ DES GRANDS HOMMES FRANÇAIS/ 1847 in nine lines. EF, brown surfaces, edge bumps.