| Noonans (formerly Dix Noonan Webb) > Auction 292 | Auction date: 6 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 127 Price realized: 110 GBP (Approx. 140 USD / 129 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: The Silich Collection of Historical and Art Medals Dumarest, Rambert (French, 1760-1806); b. Saint-Étienne, moved to England 1790, then France 1791 FRANCE, Paix d'Amiens [Treaty of Amiens], 1802, a copper medal by R. Dumarest, laureate bust of Napoléon left, rev. Napoléon standing naked in imitation of Mars, holding a statue of Victory and offering an olive-branch to a semi-naked female representing England who rests her back against a lion, 50mm, 63.82g (Bramsen 195; CGMP p.35; BDM I, 644; Pax 719; Slg. Julius 1053; cf. BSJ 1, 188). Trifling rim nicks, otherwise about extremely fine £80-£100 --- Under the terms of the treaty, signed by Joseph Bonaparte and Marquis Cornwallis on 25 March 1802, Britain recognised the French Republic but, increasingly angered by Napoleon's subsequent re-ordering of the international system in Western Europe, declared war on France in May 1803. |  |
