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ENCHERES COTE D'OPALE - DEBACKER & RICHMOND

551 - Medal – TRIBUTE to the cartoonist SEMPE ( * ) based on an en…
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Medal – TRIBUTE to the cartoonist SEMPE ( * ) based on an engraving by GUS. A caricatured bust of Sempé amidst a crowd of demonstrators holding placards reading ‘VIVE’. Reverse: Sempé’s eye illuminated by ‘childlike innocence’, with a spiral inscription: ‘Run for your lives. Nothing is simple. Everything gets complicated. The great panic. Ups and downs. Monsieur Lambert. Saint-Tropez”. - 70 mm – 199 grams – inscribed on the edge: ‘bronze 1974’, horn hallmark – in its original box from the Paris Mint. ( * ) Jean Jacques SEMPE, born in Bordeaux in 1932, died in Ampus (83) in 2022 – Illustrator, engraver, writer, caricaturist, comic book author (Le Petit Nicolas, in partnership with René Goscinny) – He contributed to all the major newspapers such as *L’Express*, *Paris Match*, *The New Yorker*, *Le Figaro*, etc.
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About the sale SALE OF COINS – BANKNOTES – MEDALS – PHALERISTICS – OLD PAPERS – POSTCARDS – MILITARIA
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Auction time 11/25/2026 at 2:00 PM
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