Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

France, Apollon, 1898, a silver-gilt medal by A. Dubois for the Ministère de l’Instruction Publique et des Beaux-Arts, seated naked figure of Apollo, playing a violin, figures in wooded setting behind, rev. lyre, wreath and legend (École Nationale de Musique, Caen, Prix d’Honneur, 1909), 68mm (CGMP p.158; cf. DNW 54, 834). Rim bruises, otherwise about very fine £40-60