376, Lot: 713. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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FRANCE, Royal (Restored). temp. Louis Philippe. 1830-1848. AR Octagonal Jeton (15.97 g, 12h). Issue of the Commissaires Experts du Gouvernement. By Domard. Paris mint. Dually dated 1822 and 1831 [
restruck 1880-1898 and 1901]. Mercury seated left on bale ste on entablature, foot on cornucopia, holding caduceus and leaning on rudder; scales to left; Ten Commandments to right / COMMISSAIRES EXPERTS DU GOUVERNEMENT, LOI/DU 27 JUILLET/1822 in three lines; star in exergue. Mitchiner,
Jetons II:4041. EF, toned.
From the collection of a Texas Wine Doctor.