Paul Bosco Coins and Medals

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Inv. 2935. Medal of Lafayette by Benjamin Duvivier, 1790, silver 41 mm. The Avenger of Liberty Medal, from the Fuld Collection and the plate medal from the Melvin and George Fuld’s “Medallic Memorials to Lafayette.” After Lafayette fled from the Terror, the medalist Duvivier offered the die for this medal to the public executioner in place of the head of Lafayette. This specimen is engraved on the edge as a wedding commemoration for Michel Jean-Baptiste Jacques Aroux, a prominent judge in Rouen during the French Revolution and Empire, and Agathe Ignace Payenneville, July 29, 1790.

Silver, 41 mm, Nearly EF (Stack’s: “about uncirculated”). Fuld LA.1790.4. From the Stack’s Philadelphia Americana Sale, 30 Sept. – 2 Oct. 2010, lot 5489. Much rarer than silver strikes of 41mm Napoleon medals, but barely more expensive.

$1,500

Figure 1 Lafayette medal by Duvivier Figure 2 Lafayette medal by Duvivier