Lot 302: [ FRENCH MEDALS ]

NICOLAS BRIOT (c. 1579-1646) Louis XIII and the Regency of Marie de Medici, silver medal, 1613, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right wearing the Order of St. Esprit; dated 1613 below, rev., DAT PACCATVM OMNIBVS AETHER, Marie as Juno seated on a rainbow, dissipating clouds over a landscape with ship at sea in the distance, 53.4mm (Mazerolle 562; Jones 118), contemporary striking, good very fine

Provenance: De la Tour collection, Hess-Divo 313, 4 May 2009, lot 326.