FRANCE - FRANCE First Empire / Napoleon I (1804-1814). Médaille d'Or, award for the canalisation of the Veaune stream and irrigation work at Conflans (Mercurol-Veaunes), by Andrieu, Frappe spéciale (SP) 1811, Paris. Av. NAPOLEON - EMP. AND KING. Laureate bust right; below, signature ANDRIEU F. and DENON DIRt. Rv. Within a wreath formed of two laurel branches, inscriptions engraved in seven lines: NAPOLEONE / MAGNO IMPERANTE / DE ARENTIBUS AGRIS, / AQUÆDUCTU FECUNDATIS, / HOC FUIT PRÆMIUM / GENIO DECRETUM / LI PRI DE GROS. Br. cf. 467 (obverse); Gold - 61.32 g - 40.4 mm - 12 h Top Pop: the only graded example! PCGS SP53 (55951763). Edge inscribed: * COMES ILLUST. DE MONTALIVET MINIST. INT. SIC MANDAVIT. 9 JUNII 1811. Bumping to edge and scrolls, as well as handling marks and scratches. One of a kind. TTB. For Louis-Prosper de Gros de Conflans, a Drôme nobleman and landowner, who undertook the construction of a canal from the Veaune stream. He was awarded a gold medal for this work, our copy, by Jean-Pierre Bachasson, Comte de Montalivet, Minister of the Interior from 1809 to 1814, also from the Dauphiné.