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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 1400135, member: 24633&quot;]Join the club, Dave! Most of my French medals are 50mm-90mm. I&#039;ve been collecting them for the last 8 years. Fortunately, I bought most of mine before there was a great deal of interest in them and silver was below $6/oz, so the prices were very low.</p><p><br /></p><p>I searched and searched and found that there is no single, definitive reference book on French medals. Yes, if you&#039;re lucky and have 50 years, you might be able to find the annual catalogs from the Monnaie de Paris for the years 1800-1900, but they will cost you $2K+. The best that I could come up with is the <b><i>Biographical Dictionary of Medallists</i></b> by Forrer. It is an 8-volume set with more than 5200 pages. It doesn&#039;t provide illustrations for all of the works of the artists, but it does provide names of the works and most dates of issuance. The set covers, not only French medalists, but medalists from all over the world from 50BC to 1900AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one of my favorites from 1928 which depicts Marianne, the symbol of France, standing before the French Senate building.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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