Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

France, 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Ferdinand de Lesseps, 1955, silver medal by R.B. Baron, bust left, reverse two hands parting the continents, allowing a steamship to pass through the Suez Canal, APERIRE TERRAM GENTIBUS, 59mm. Extremely fine, very rare (£70-90)

Roger Baron (b.1907), a prolific French medallist whose height of activity was in the 1940s and 1950s