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308
usa / France. Louis XV (1715-1774).
Médaille en argent commémorant la Paix d'Aix-la-Chapelle, par F. Marteau
et J.-C. Roettiers 1748 (Ar - 32,02g - 41,5mm).
MI 649/350; Menadier 27; Divo 143 ; Pax 574; Ford XIV, 12. Très rare. Magnifique patine médaillier. SUP.
Very rare. Marvelous cabinet tone. XF.
La Paix d'Aix-la-Chapelle marque la fin de la guerre de Succession d'Autriche et exige entre autre la restitution
générale des conquêtes, dont Louisbourg (USA) à la France.
400 - 600
309
usa. Pré-Fédéral.
Médaillon uniface en terre cuite en l'honneur de Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790),
par Jean Baptiste Nini 1777 Chaumont-sur-Loire (Ae - 172,77g - 113mm).
Biardi & Sibille, Jean-Baptiste Nini, 94; cf Betts 548, pp.247-8. Très rare. Trou de suspension d'origine. SUP.
Very rare. Original suspension hole. XF.
Franklin had been appointed as the American envoy to France in September 1776, where he was to stay until 1785.
This medal was made by Nini when Franklin was a guest of Nini’s patron, Jacques Donatien Le Ray du Chaumont
(1726-1803). Franklin sent five or six cases packed with medals to America but they were lost in a shipwreck off the
French coast at Noirmoutier. At least four cases were recovered and stored in Nantes and forgotten. Rediscovered in
1830, they were sold and again forgotten until two cases were bought in 1876 by a French collector, Mr Myrvoix.
800 - 1.000
