Asking For My Brother—hope Someone Could Help US Out

Looks to be a large medal issued in France in 1900.

I found this on the internet:

ZK69, France, Bronze Medal 1900 (Ø63mm, 101.2g) by Chaplain, Paris Olympic Games, Universal Exhibition

There are several of them up on ebay. Just search 1900 French Medal in "Coins" and they should be easy to find.

Do a little research and you should be able to find exactly what you are looking for. Definitely worth something!

Good luck!

On that link, the poster stated: " The 1900 Exposition was held in Paris at the same time as the Olympics, though the Olympics was not the greater attraction. Jules Clement Chaplain was one of five French medalists to produce medals, plaquettes and medalets for the occasions. The others, in no particular order were, Frederic Charles Victor de Vernon, Louis Oscar Roty, Adolphe Rivet and Louis Bottee. In Victor Gadoury's book, Olympic Medals and Coins, the Chaplain medal is listed at 63.4mm and was struck in silver and bronze. There is no mention of an 80mm specimen of the same design, nor one with the lanyard coupling. It is possible that one of the award winners commissioned the enlargement (for family?) since the concave obverse you mentioned sounds a bit odd. It is also possible that it was reproduced in silvered bronze which was cheaper to have made as opposed to one of pure silver. Since all of the medals were produced at the Paris Mint, did you check the edge for the mintmark and composition? The mintmark for all Paris Mint medals of the period was the "cornucopia". Silver medals would have "ARGENT" stamped on the edge and bronze or silvered bronze medals would have "BRONZE" on the edge. Chaplain is one of my favorite French medalists, and I like his 1900 Exposition Universelle so much that I have three of them in bronze. For what it is worth, I have been watching for one of the silver medals for about 9-10 years, but I have never seen a single one. "

Interesting background on this medal!

Many thanks, @westernsky, for your help! You made it so easy to look up on the Internet!

Now I know how to look for the information next time. This is the very first time my brother asked for my help.

I truly appreciate your help more than you ever know!

@westernsky, my brother was and still is very pleased with your help and the information we supplied him with is very helpful and useful. He will decide what to do with the medal.

As for me, it was a learning process and I learnt something new about this medal.

Now I will be careful not to dismiss medals even if I do not collect them.

Thank you!

The Key Learning of your exercise, IMO. Many collectors never learn this and dismiss medals without a thought.

Medals offer much in the way of art and history to the collector - they are well-deserving of attention!