Medal - Benjamin Delessert - Caisse d’Epargne de Versailles

Medal - Benjamin Delessert - Caisse d’Epargne de Versailles - obverseMedal - Benjamin Delessert - Caisse d’Epargne de Versailles - reverse

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Features

Location France
Type Commemorative medals › Institution medal
Composition Gold plated silver (.950)
Weight 87.84 g
Diameter 59.45 mm
Thickness 3.5 mm
Shape Octagonal (8-sided)
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
281579

Obverse

Bust of Benjamin Delessert, founder of the Caisses d'épargne savings banks in France in 1818, writing his will while holding a pen and a sheet of paper.Automatically translated

Lettering:
R.GREGOIRE 1935
LA CONFERENCE
DES CAISSES D'EPARGNE
A
BENJAMIN DELESSERT
Fondateur des Caisses d’Epargne
et a ses
CONTINUATEURS

Engraver: René Grégoire

Reverse

Specific reverse for the Versailles cash deskAutomatically translated

Lettering:
à
M
ADMINISTRATEUR
de la
Caisse d’Epargne
de
VERSAILLES

Edge

Incuse lettering

Lettering: LM

Medal - Benjamin Delessert - Caisse d’Epargne de Versailles -  obverse

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Mint

Mintmark of The Franklin Mint (LM) The Franklin Mint, Wawa, Pennsylvania, United States (1964-date)

Comments

Medal of reward / work, punch diamond of the Medaillier, French subsidiary of Franklin Mint.

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