Medals of the 1848 French Revolution
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Exile of the June InsurgentsSilvered Cast Lead Medal (40mm, 22.05 g, 12h).
RÉPUBLIQUE (inverted and retrograde) DES HONNÈTES GENS (Republic of honest people.
1848/ ÉTAT DE/ SIÈGE/ TRANSPORTATION/ DES INSURGES/ DE JUIN (1848 state of siege. Transportation of the June Insurgents), within border of longbones with skulls at cardinal points
1848/ ÉTAT DE/ SIÈGE/ MISÉRE (Wretched state of siege)
De Saulcey, Souvenirs numismatiques de la Révolution de 1848 pl. 19, 5; Musée Carnavalet ND7926
Ex Mors in Nummis (HJR) Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 424, 11 July 2018), lot 641Ardatirion
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Les journés de Juin – The "Saint-Barthélemy" of June 1848Cast Tin Medal (58mm, 28.42 g, 12h)
Massacre scene: military firing squad about to shoot insurgent with wife and child pleading at side; in foreground, soldier about to stab insurgent; to left one soldier dragging insurgent off; burning buildings in background
La/ St Barthélemy de juine 1848, ou la/ terreur blanche./ les royalistes se vengent de la révolution de fevrier;/ ils tuent et transportent/ les républicains/ sans le juger (The St. Barthélemy of June 1848, or the white terror. The Royalists take revenge for the February revolution; they kill and transport the Republicans without a trial.), all within border of alternating sabers and skull and crossbones
Musée Carnavalet ND3750
Ex Mors in Nummis (HJR) Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 425, 25 July 2018), lot 750Ardatirion
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Louis Auguste Blanqui and La Republique RougeCast Tin Medal (17.95 g, 12h)
RÉPUBLIQUE ROUGE/ VIVE BLANQUI OU LA MORT! (Long live Blanqui or death!)
Flag on pole surmounted by skull-and-crossbones wearing Liberty Cap decorated with lis; torch to left, halberd to right
AUX MAUX/ VIOLENTS ·/LES VIOLENTS/ REMÈDES :/LA GUILLOTINE/ SERA BIENTOT/ NÉCESSAIRE (To violent maladies, violent remedies: the guillotine will soon me necessary.)
Cf. de Saulcey, Souvenirs numismatiques de la Révolution de 1848 pl. 8, 1 (for obverse type); Musée Carnavalet ND8632
Ex Mors in Nummis (HJR) Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 424, 11 July 2018), lot 624Ardatirion
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The Manifestation of 1848 and the Imprisonment of BlanquiCast Tin Medal (47mm, 18.73 g, 12h)
UNIVERSELLE RÉPUBLIQUE DÉMOCRATIQUE SOCIALISTE UNE ET INDIVISIBLE (Universal Democratic Socialist Republic, One and Indivisible)/
Bust of Blanqui facing slightly right; liberty cap to left, carpenter's square to right; LE CITOYEN BLANQUI CALOMNIE/ 15 MAI 1848/ PRISONNIERS AU DONJON DE/ VINCENNES DE PAR LES/ REPUBLICAINS/ DU/ NATIONAL (False accusations against Citizen Blanqui, imprisoned in the dungeon of Vincennes by the nation's Republicans)
LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ VIVRE LIBRE OU MOURIR! (Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity - Live free or die!)
BOURGEOIS./AVEC L´ÉTAT DE SIÈGE/VOUS AUREZ L´ORDRE COMME/A VARSOVIE ET MILAN./L´HERBE ENTRE LES PAVÉS. LES/CANONS REMPLACERONT LES/CAMIONS PUIS LA/ BANQUE (skull-and-crossbones) ROUTE (Bourgeois, with the state of siege you will have orders as at Warsaw and Milan. The grass between the cobblestones, the cannons will replace the carriages then the road bank.)
De Saulcey, Souvenirs numismatiques de la Révolution de 1848 pl. 30, 1; Musée Carnavalet ND8752
Ex Mors in Nummis (HJR) Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 423, 27 June 2018), lot 511 Ardatirion
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