Token - Les 100 plus grandes inventions de l’humanité La soie artificielle

Token - Les 100 plus grandes inventions de l’humanité (La soie artificielle) - obverseToken - Les 100 plus grandes inventions de l’humanité (La soie artificielle) - reverse

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Features

Location France
Type Souvenir medals › Commemorative souvenir
Year 1979
Composition Silver (.925)
Weight 13.5 g
Diameter 32 mm
Thickness 2 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
158996

Obverse

Manufacturing workshop with two workers at work. Invention of artificial silk.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering: LA SOIE ARTIFICIELLE

Reverse

At the top, coat of arms representing an owl resting on a toothed half-wheel.
Text in the center
FM Franklin Mint logoAutomatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
L’industrie de la soie
artificielle, crée en 1884 par
le Comte de Chardonnet,
a considérablement contribué
à réduire les différences
de vêtements entre
les classes sociales.
LMF

Edge

Smooth wint inscription

Lettering: C LM 79 P

Token - Les 100 plus grandes inventions de l’humanité (La soie artificielle) -  obverse

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Mints

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

Mark

Weevil Silver Certification Mark

Comments

Medal struck by Le Médailler Franklin (Franklin mint).
Importation hallmark, weevil in a rectangle: hallmark used since 1893, concerning silver articles manufactured abroad and then imported.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1979 LMF/LM Weevil

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