Coins and Historical Medals

FRANCE, Death of Vivant Denon, 1825, a copper medal by A. Donadio, 40mm; together with contemporary copper medalets (3), viz. Completion of the Arc de Triomphe, 1836 (2), both by J.P. Montagny, both 26mm (Bramsen 1954, 1956 var.), Napoleon’s Sarcophagus, 1840, by F Caunois, 25mm (Bramsen 1984) [4]. Very fine to extremely fine £80-£100

Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (1747-1825), artist, writer, diplomat, author and archaeologist. Director of the Musée Napoleon (now the Louvre) until 1814, his Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte was the foundation of modern Egyptology