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Looking For Help Identifying & Valuing This French Medallion

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 Posted 08/03/2014  5:55 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add tak35bne to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I am looking for assistance to identify and value this medallion. My mother found this piece in some of my fathers things after his recent passing and we were looking for some background information on it, any and all help appreciated.



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 Posted 08/03/2014  8:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hello and welcome.

Here is where collecting ancient coins has some positive overflow into other areas of numismatics. Because I can recognize the Latin titles around the building are the ancient Roman titles of the triumvirs who were responsible for running the Mint under the Republic; it translates to "gold, silver and bronze casting and striking"; the initials "AAAFF" appear on many early Roman coins as a result.

So it is logical to conclude that it is a mint medal. The Wikipedia article on the Paris mint shows exactly the same building, known as the "Hôtel des Monnaies".

The date, "1770", is the year the current mint organization was founded. It does not date the medal. Nor is the portrait necessarily useful, since it could have been struck long after the king died. The PAris MInt has a long history of re-striking old medals to order, and they still use this mint-building die, as evidenced by this mint souvenir medal being sold on Delcampe.
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 Posted 08/06/2014  1:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Aernout to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hi,

I think this well help ;)
remark: Is not complete the same (name of king is shorter here)


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