Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

FRANCE, Bacchanale, c. 1900, a uniface circular cast bronze plaque by F.-A. Heller, laureate head of Bacchus left, legend in Greek, 143mm (BDM II, 474). Very fine, with the legend, laurel leaves and ribbon picked out in gilt, attractive, very rare £150-200

Provenance: Collin du Bocage Auction (Paris), 3 June 2014, lot 174.

Illustration considerably reduced. Florent-Antoine Heller (1840-1904), sculptor and painter from Saverne (Alsace), fled his native country after serving in the Franco-Prussian War and worked for Tiffany and later Gorham Mfg Co in New York, before returning to France in the late 1890s