Of American Interest

395, Lot: 522. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal (Restored). Louis XVIII. 1814-1824. Æ Medal (50.5mm, 45.13 g, 12h). Franco-America Convention of Navigation and Commerce. Paris mint. By Andrieu and Gayrard. De Puymaurin, director. Struck 1822 (though a later restrike). LVDOVICVS XVIII FRANC ET NAV REX, bare head right / GALLIA ET AMERICA FOEDERATA, personifications of France and the United States leaning on herm; prow in background; in exergue, NOVIS COMMERCIORVM PACTIS/ IVNCTAE. Collignon 363. Superb EF.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.

This medal celebrates a commerce treaty signed by Bayon Hyde de Neuville, representing Louis XVIII of France, and John Quincy Adams, representing the United States.