444, Lot: 551. Estimate $100. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Premier Empire. Napoléon I. 1804-1814. Æ Medal (40mm, 39.77 g, 12h). Battle of Somosierra and the Abolition of the Inquisition. By Droz and Jeu. Denon, director. Dated 1808 (in Roman numerals). NAPOLEON EMP. ET. ROI., laureate head right / Napoléon, the guise of Jupiter, holding thunderbolt and driving biga at the fallen Inquisition, holding raised torch and clutching one of two collapsing columns; in exergue, BATAILLE DE SOMMO SIERRA/ L’INQUISITION DETRUITE/ MDCCCVIII. Bramsen 756. EF, brown surfaces, minor spot.