The Silich Collection of Historical and Art Medals (Part II)

FRANCE, La Moisson, or Moissonneuse [The Harvest], 1904, a silver medal by J.-B.-A. Dampt for the Société des Amis de la Médaille française, female standing in a wheat field, holding a sickle, rev. ploughman in field to left, sun in splendour above, edge impressed argent 53, cornucopia and foundry mark of the SAMF, 60mm, 97.03g (Maier 26; PBE 288; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.69, 2, and p.307, 9; Coll. R. Marx 116; BDM VII, 202; cf. Chaponnière & Firmenich 18, 159; cf. iNumis 49-50, 1037). Very fine, obverse toned, rare £500-£700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Silich Collection of Historical and Art Medals.

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Bt Simmons July 2002.

Edition of 91 in silver