medal
- Museum number
- 1980,0102.9
- Description
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Cast gunmetal medal; pierced and with an incuse reverse. (whole)
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Bust of Alexandre de Sève, right. (obverse)
- Production date
- 1661
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 49.500 millimetres
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Weight: 25.25 grammes
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Thickness: 2 millimetres (at rim)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Jones 2
Composition of medal:
84.0% Cu, 8.9% Zn, 4.0% Sn, 2.9% Pb.
This is an early after cast of a medal which normally has a reverse with the legend NEC DEVIAT VSQVAM.
Alexandre de Sève, Seigneur de Chatignonville, and Provost of the Paris Merchants (1655-62), was a well-known collector of ancient coins (he had seven or eight hundred large bronze medallions). An Académie de médaillistes met periodically at his house (see 1, 4).
Bibliography:
1. Marolles Suite des Mémoires p.267.
2. T.N. Méd. Fr. I pl. 65, no 3.
3. A. d'Affry de la Monnoye Jetons no. 182.
4. Bonnaffé Amateurs français p.292.
5. Blanchet and Dieudonné, p. 178.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1980
- Acquisition notes
- From the sale of the E. Meunier collection, Drouot Rive-Gauche, Paris, 30.11.1979, lot 89.
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- 1980,0102.9
- C&M catalogue number
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MF2 (Jones 2) (303) (352)
