FRANCE, Ouverture du canal de l’Ourcq [Opening of the Canal de l’Ourcq]

FRANCE, Ouverture du canal de l’Ourcq [Opening of the Canal de l’Ourcq], 1809, a copper medal by B. Andrieu for D.-V. Denon, laureate bust of Napoléon to right, rev. robed figure of Paris seated on her ship, holding a cornucopia, receiving on her right arm waters gushing from an urn held by a naked female, a second naked female bathes her feet with water from her own urn, 40mm, 39.13g (Bramsen 868; CGMP p.71; BDM I, 54; Slg. Julius 2122; cf. Elsen 164, 2413; cf. Varesi e10, 428; cf. Noonans 311, 690). About extremely fine £60-£80.

Estimate:£60

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