418, Lot: 567. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Troisième République. 1870-1940. Æ Medal (67mm, 150.5 g, 12h). The Spirit of Music – “Orphée endort Cerbère aux sons de sa lyre”. By Marie Alexandre Lucien Coudray. Struck 1900. Laureate bust of Orpheus facing slightly right, head turned slightly left, holding lyre / Genius seated left on cartouche, head right, holding trumpet and quill; scroll of music notes across lap, violin below, laurel branch around. BRONZE on edge. EF, minor marks.