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Auction: 24123 - British and World Coins and Medals featuring the Pritchard Collection of 18th Century Provincial Tokens and Commemorative Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 1393

European AE Medals (5) | including, France, Louis XVIII, Foundation of the Seminary of St Sulpice, AE Medal, 1820, by Andrieu and Puymaurin, 41mm, 35.34g, some bruising to the rims, bagmarked, very fine; Germany, Industrial Exhibition of Berlin, AE Medal, 1844, by Lorenz and Schilling, 45mm, 53.62g (Marienburg 4234), some scratches in obverse field but otherwise with a faint lustre to light brown surfaces, extremely fine; and Golden Wedding Anniversary of Wilhelm I and the Empress Augusta, AE Medal, 1897, by E. Weigand, 38mm, 24.82g, minor contact marking, otherwise with flashes of mint red to light brown surfaces, extremely fine; Austria, Franz Joseph I, God save the Emperor and the people of Austria, AE Medal, 1853, by Johann Roth, 38mm, 26.78g (Hauser 284; Wurzb 2459), lightly bagmarked and showing the first signs of verdigris, otherwise with a glossy lustre, good very fine; Russian Empire, Poland, Alexander I, Opening of the Alexander Steelworks in Byalogony, AE Medal, 1817, after A. Stockhart, laureate bust right, rev. view of mountainous factory and mines, radiant sun above, 50mm, 37.67g (cf. Diakov 407), with lightly pitted and darkened surfaces, very fine, scarcely encountered (5)

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£210

Starting price
£150