Lot no. 1040
FRANCE - FRANCE
Louis XVIII (1814-1824). Gold medal, Société d'Agriculture de Paris, by Jeuffroy [1815] - 1839, Paris.
Av. INSTITUIT - CONSTITUIT - RESTITUIT. Busts of Louis XV, Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, side by side on the left; below signed JEUFFROY.
Rv. REGIA ET PRIMARIA AGRICULTURAE SOCIETAS PARISIORUM. A. MDCCCXV. Opposite plough and ploughshare; below EX UTILITATE DECUS.
Coll - ; Gold - 34,92 g - 37 mm - 12 h
Attribution engraved on the edge: Mr JUGE St MARTIN À LIMOGES (HAUTE-VIENNE) 7 AVRIL 1939.
PCGS SP Genuine Cleaned-UNC Detail (51879553).
With antique lamp hallmark. Fields scraped and rubbed. Superb.
For Jean Aymé Juge de Saint-Martin, son of the agronomist Jacques Joseph Juge de Saint-Martin (1743-1824). A professor of natural history and an agronomist, Jacques Joseph was a member of the Société d'Agriculture de Limoges and then of the Société Centrale d'Agriculture de Paris, which awarded him a gold medal for his nurseries containing thousands of trees of different species.
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