395, Lot: 520. Estimate $100. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Premier Empire. Napoléon I. 1804-1814. Æ Medal (40mm, 38.62 g, 12h). Encampment at Boulogne and the Planned Invasion of England. By Droz. Denon, director. Dually dated L’an 12 and 1804. NAPOLEON EMPEREUR, laureate head right / EN L’AN XII 20000 BARQUES SONT CONSTRUITES, Hercules subduing the English lion; in exergue, DENON DIREXIT/ 1804. Bramsen 320. EF, obv. die flaw.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.