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Auction: 4026 - Ancient, English and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 583

France, The Fall of the Bastille and the Arrival of the King at Paris, 1789, a pair of uniface copper squeezes, 84 mm., by Bertrand Andrieu, a vivid scene of the Bastille under fire by the citizens of Paris with return fire from the ramparts and a view of the King and his family in a coach arriving in the Place Louis XV, (Jones, M., Medals of the French Revolution p.6; Julius 14), original red velvet lined cloth covered case with clasp, small hole at two o'clock in the second piece, original red velvet lined cloth covered case with clasp, small hole at two o'clock in the second piece, otherwise both extremely fine, attractive Estimate £ 150-180

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£210