FRANCE - FRANCE Second Empire / Napoleon III (1852-1870). Médaille d'Or, Impératrice Eugénie's charities for orphans, by A. Bovy and A. Dubois, Special strike (SP) 1867, Paris. Av. EUGENIE - IMPERATRICE. Nude head on the left, hair in a plaited bun; below signed A. BOVY AFTER J. PEYRE. Rv. The empress seated left, crowned, with a mantle of bees on her legs, receiving orphans with various tools, compasses or hammer for the boys, distaff and spool of thread for the girls, the last with a funeral urn. Behind, an anvil and a blast furnace; in the exergue (date) and signature ALPHÉE DUBOIS Ft. Divo 551 = this specimen quoted; Gold - 72.12 g - 46 mm - 12 h Top Pop: the only graded example! From the sale Leu 14, Monnaies et médailles napoléoniennes, 15 October 1975, Zurich, No. 565 with cover (with deferred price CHF 2250). PCGS SP63 (55951631). Hallmarks (bee) GOLD. Special minting with mirror fields and matt relief. Only tiny scratches in the fields and finger marks. Superb at Fleur de coin.