416, Lot: 566. Estimate $200. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Premier Empire. Napoléon I. 1804-1814. Æ Medal (76mm, 177.6 g, 12h). The Exile of Napoleon to St. Helena. By an uncertain Italian engraver. Dated 1816. NAPOLEONE IMPERATORE E RE, laureate head right; circlet of nine stars above; below head, broken wheel and palm frond crossed with laurel branch / NON DI LUI MA DI CHI LO TRADI IMAGO, Prometheus left, chained hand and foot to rock face of mountain; to right, eagle standing right on outcropping, picking at Prometheus’ side to extract his liver. Bramsen 1785. EF, brown surfaces.

Ex Ranieri 10 (12 November 2016), lot 216.