CNG 96, Lot: 1440. Estimate $500. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Troisième République. 1870-1940. AV Medal (33mm, 12.29 g, 12h). Commemorating the Exposition Ouvrière Nationale de Rouen. Dated 1896. VILLE DE ROUEN, crowned coat-of-arms within wreath / EXPOSITION/OUVRIÈRE/NATIONALE/DE/ROUEN/1896 in six lines; filleted laurel branch to left. Edge: head of eagle right, AD in triangular incuse, OR, 916, and M/M. As Issued, toned, evidence of having possibly been placed in a bezel.

Held seven years after the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, the Exposition Ouvrière Nationale in Rouen was designed to showcase France’s contemporary advances in industrial technology, including the use of electricity as a driving force for industry.