387, Lot: 586. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

UNITED STATES. Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. 1757-1834. Æ Medal (47mm, 48.93 g, 12h). Start of the Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States. After a bust by François Augustin Caunois. Dually dated 1757 and 1824. GENERAL LAFAYETTE, bust right; · 1824 · on truncation of bust; CAUNOIS FRENCH · below / THE DEFENDER/OF AMERICAN AND/FRENCH LIBERTY./1757-1824./BORN IN CHAVANIAC,/THE 6 SEPTEMBER,/1757 in seven lines within oak wreath. Collignon 411. EF, attractive brown surfaces.