Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

FRANCE, Société Centrale des Architectes, c. 1900, a bronze admission medal by E.-A. Oudiné, named (Mr Eugène Lefèvre-Pontalis, 22 Janvier 1903), 69mm (cf. DNW M13, 1495); Raymond Poincaré, 1913, a bronze medal by L.-J. Deschamps, 72mm (CGMP p.142; cf. DNW M13, 1498); Paul Deschanel, 1926, a bronze medal by L.-E. Drivier, 72mm (CGMP p.149) [3]. Very fine, last scarce £60-£80

Eugène Lefèvre-Pontalis (1862-1923), medievalist and archaeologist; appointed assistant in medieval archaeology at the École Nationale des Chartes, 1894, and succeeded to the professorship, 1911; president of the Société française d’archéologie, 1911; president of the Société nationale des antiquaires, 1916. He founded the Société des amis de la cathédrale de Reims to help restore the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Reims after World War I