Sale: Triton X, Lot: 988. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $675. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Louis XIV le Roi Soleil (the Sun King). 1643–1715. AR Medal (77.70 g, 12h). Commemorating alliance with the Swiss. J. Warin, engraver. Dated 1663. • LVD • XIIII • D • G • FR • ET • NAV • REX •, draped bust right / NVLLA DIES SVB ME NATOQVE HÆC FOEDERA RVMPET, king and dauphin, to left, meeting Swiss envoys, to right, over ornate altar; radiating dove flying from sky above; • FOEDERE HELVETICO • / INSTAVRATO • / • MDCLXIII • in three lines below altar. Haller 75; Wunderly 3477. VF, toned, minor field marks.

From the Collection of a California Gentleman. Ex G. Hirsch 199 (6 May 1998), lot 2250.