Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Medals of the Early Colonial Period and the European Heritage, Cercle des Philadelphes du Cap-François (Est. 1788), a silver medal by M. Simon, bust of Louis XVI right, rev. sun shines on hive with bees, 32mm, 11.96g. Good fine, toned £150-200

Provenance: Bt R. Margolis August 1985.

The Cercle des Philadelphes was a philanthropic society with interests in the arts, literature and sciences and of which Benjamin Franklin became a member. In its early days it was responsible for the study of anthrax of which there had been several epidemics. Further details are published in Spink’s Numismatic Circular, October 1910