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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
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