British and World Coins, Medals, Tokens and Numismatic Books

FRANCE, Rouget de l’Isle, 1911, bronze medal by A. Borrel, bust right, reverse the Marseillaise, flaming torch in centre, 57mm (CGMP p.55); Avant la Bataille, 1899, bronze medal by L.-E. Mouchon, Joan of Arc on horseback, 49mm (BDM IV, 175); Erection of the Monument to French Patriots at Wissembourg, 1909, bronze medal by A. Schultz, 50mm (BDM –); Franco-Prussian War, 1910, silver-plated medal by G.H. Lemaire, 50mm (BDM VII, 547), in original maroon box, inscribed (Lt. Colonel Rousset). [4]. Very fine and better (£40-50)

Claude Joseph Rouget de l’Isle (1760-1836), the army officer famous for composing the words to the Marseillaise in 1792.

The Franco-Prussian War medal, commemorative of the hostilities of 1870-71, was issued on 3 July 1911