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FRANCE / CAPETIANS - FRANCE / ROYAL
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1279
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FRANCE / CAPETIANS - FRANCE / ROYAL
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Estimate €1,500
Voluntary lot
Description
FRANCE / CAPETIANS - FRANCE / ROYAL
Louis XIII (1610–1643). Medal, marking the end of Marie de Médicis’s regency and the beginning of Louis XIII’s personal reign, attributed to Nicolas Briot, 1617, Paris.
Obverse: *LVDO* XIII* D* G* FR* ET* NAVAR* REX* CHRIS9. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust facing right; below *.(date).*.
Rev. *DAT* PACCATVM* OMNIBVS* ÆTHER* / (date). Above a landscape with towns and the sea, Marie de Médicis, standing on a rainbow as Juno, crowned, holding a sceptre and a peacock.
Maz.565/562; Silver – 55.54 g – 53 mm – 12 h
From the Peter Corcoran collection, Hess Divo auction 328, 22 May 2015, lot 1206.
NGC UNC DETAILS STAINED (2118554-003).
With stains on the fields resulting from old drips. Dark patina. A few scratches and minor knocks. Very fine relief. Superb.
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