CNG 96, Lot: 1432. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal (Restored). temp. Louis Philippe. 1830-1848. AV Medal (42mm, 53.83 g, 12h). By N.G. A. Brenet (1773-1846). Presented to Octave Henriot at the Exposition of 1845 in Amiens. Paris mint. Dated 1845. Minerva seated left on a base set on ground line, holding two filleted wreaths, one in her outstretched right hand and the other in her left resting on her lap; to right, decorated altar; BRENET in exergue to left. Edge: hand pointing and OR / VILLE D’AMIENS/Oct. HENRIOT/ À/AMIENS/EXPOSITION 1845 engraved in five lines and filled with black for emphasis; all within laurel wreath. Edge: hand pointing and OR. Calonne d’Avesne, Histoire de la ville d’Amiens. Amiens au XIXe Siecle (Amiens/Paris; 1906), p. 209. As Issued, toned, a few hairlines, some of the black now missing.

Brenet was a painter and engraver who worked for the Paris mint (his father was a painter as well). The Minerva and wreathed reverse types were used for a number of prize medals engraved by Brenet that were produced in Paris during the 19th century. Octave Henriot founded a cloth factory at Amiens, later in partnership with his sons.