Coins and Historical Medals

FRANCE, Automobile-Club de France, 1895, a silver Société d’Encouragement award medal by J.-B. Daniel-Dupuis, semi-naked female figure sat on tricycle, right hand holding a torch and left hand on the tiller, rev. legend above wreath, named (Course Boulogne-Folkestone 1905, L. Prod’homme), 136.31g, 68mm (PBE 305; BM Acq. 1983-7, pl. 39, 63; cf. DNW M7, 2595). Good very fine; in contemporary maroon holder £400-£500