Lot 292: [ FRENCH MEDALS ]

GUILLAUME DUPRÉ (c. 1579-1640) Louis XIII (1610-1643), bronze medal, 1623, LODOVIC XIII D G FRANCOR ET NAVARAE REX, bust to right wearing ruff, cuirass and mantle; traces of '1623' incised on truncation, rev., VT GENTES TOLLAT QVE PREMAT QVE, Justice seated right, holding sword and scales; the constellation of Libra above; below, 1623, 62mm (Mazerolle 689; Jones 58; Pollard 647 = Kress 566; Smolderen 32), with suspension loop, some marks but a very fine contemporary cast with brown patina