A Collection of Historical and Art Medals

France, 1892. France, Roger Marx (1859-1914), uniface cast Æ portrait plaque 75 x 49mm, by J.B. Daniel Dupuis, Gazette Numismatique 1898, p. 184, No. 270. Very fine, rare (£50-70)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Historical and Art Medals.

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Roger Marx, art critic, museum inspector, published different books to promote medals. Founder of the Société des Amis de la Médaille Française, he was instrumental in the development of the Art of the Medal at the end of the 19th Century.