Here are some recent acquisitions in my Coins and Medals of France Collection. These are from the time known as La Belle Époque. I particularly like the portrait on the Madagascar medal.
Great post Deacon, among my favorite the French Art Nouveau period. I have a few coins from the 1890s and earlier in my Ceres head collection.
Thank you for posting, @old49er ! You have a great collection from the Belle Époque period in France. Nice assortment of denominations, sizes, and colors.
Good writeup and beautiful coins/medals, and thanks @Deacon Ray for honouring coins from my country Q
Here is my favorite from the era. Another Roty piece. Greece, French School of Athens Paris 1898, by Oscar Roty, Obverse: Allegory sitting on a column, discovering a statuette with a pick, in the decoration of the Roman Agora, signed O. Roty R. Reverse: View of the Acropolis of Athens, wreath laurel and palm bearing dates 1846 and 1898 DAVELUY 1846 inscriptions, BURNOUF 1867 DUMONT 1875 FOUCART Homole 1878 and 1891 and facade of the French School of Athens. Bronze, for 50 years of the French School of Athens. Diameter: 60MM
You’re most welcome, @Cucumbor ! My joy and pleasure. I’m planning to post more soon. I’ve had a fascination with French art and history since my childhood. It probably started when my parents gave me a big beautiful book about Napoleon. It had lots of illustrations featuring portraits, colorful uniforms, and maps. I would sit and look at that book for hours and copy my favorite illustrations using my watercolors. As I got older—in my early teens, I decided that I wanted to join the French Foreign Legion. Later on, when I attended Art School, I became fascinated with French Impressionism. I decided to visit France and tour the many museums—including the World War One battlefields. One of the museums I visited was the Musée de l'Armée in Paris and from then on I developed an interest in French Militaria. Thank you, for posting your beautiful coins. I really like the 20 francs coins with the roosters. I like them for their designs although the fact they are gold is nice too