World Historical Medals
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Lot 4288 Session 13 (2.30pm) World Historical Medals
Estimate $50
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SOLD $30
WORLD MEDALS, China, General Sun Wu, undated, in gilt (50mm), obverse General Sun Wu bust threequarters facing, reverse, unfurling bamboo book version of Sun Wu's masterpiece The Art of War; Taiwan, Veterans General Hospital - Taipei, 1959, in bronze (66.5mm); France, Revolution of 1848, in white metal (59mm), obverse, the seven plagues of the Republic blowing towards a central eye, reverse, seated La Liberte facing. The first two cased, the second with a few verdigris spots, otherwise extremely fine - uncirculated. (3)
Ex John Downey Collection.
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