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FRANCE/BELGIUM, Minerve, or Au Mérite [Minerva, or For Merit], 1880
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FRANCE/BELGIUM, Minerve, or Au Mérite [Minerva, or For Merit], 1880, an Art Nouveau silver award medal by J.-C. Chaplain and H.-A.-A. Dubois, Minerva seated half-right, holding a laurel wreath in her right hand and a palm-branch in her left, attended by cherubs, rev. wreath, named (Hommages des Électriciens à Zenobe Gramme, Inventeur de la Dynamo Industrielle, Bruxelles, 27 Mars 1898), edge impressed argent and cornucopia, 68mm, 149.91g (CGMP p.78; BM Acq. 1978-82, p.39, 30; BDM I, 404; cf. CGB June 2024, 88; cf. Stack’s/Bowers June 2019, 71342; cf. Silich III, 941). Extremely fine, toned £150-£200.
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