425, Lot: 745. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BELGIUM. temp. Léopold II. 1865-1909. Cast Æ Plaquette (41x54mm, 51.39 g, 12h). Special Presentation by Dr. Émile Dubois-Havernith to His Collaborators on the Première Conférence Internationale sur la Prophylaxie de la Syphilis et des autres Maladies Vénériennes at Bruxelles. By Fernan DuBois. Dated 1899. Personification of Prevention, advancing left and warding off Venereal Disease, represented as a voluptuous woman with skull for head and wilting flowers at feet, from a Youth holding on to Prevention’s garment and hand; sculptor’s mark and name to left of Venereal Disease; PRINCIPIIS/OBSTA in two lines to upper right; CONFERENCE INTERNAT^LE BRUXELLES 1899/LE D^R DUBOIS-HAVERNITH SECRETAIRE GEN^AL/A SES COLLABORATEURS. in three lines in exergue / Blank. H.R. Storer, MD. “The Medals, Jetons, and Tokens Illustrative of the Science of Medicine,” AJN 37-39 (1903), 1944. Near EF, a few light marks.

Ex Münz Zentrum 145 (3 September 2008), lot 6656.

According to Storer, a total of 125 specimens in bronze and silvered bronze were struck.