100802 | UNITED STATES & FRANCE. Louis XVIII/Treaty of Commerce bronze Medal.

100802  |  UNITED STATES & FRANCE. Louis XVIII bronze Medal. Issued 1822. The Treaty of Commerce (50mm, 71.73 g, 12h). By Bertrand Andrieu & Raymond Gayrard at the Paris mint.

 

LVDOVICVS XVIII FRANC ET NAV REX, laureate head right // GALLIA ET AMERICA FOEDERATA (France and America have reached an agreement...), Marianne (France), wearing crested helmet, and a native princess (America), wearing feathered crown, leaning toward one another against a column surmounted by a bust of Mercury (commerce); cornucopia and prow in background; in two lines in exergue, NOVIS COMMERCIORVM PACTIS/IVNCTAE (...joined together in this new treaty of trading). Edge: Plain.

 

Loubat 52; Collignon 363; Betts –; Ford XIV, lot 505. Mint State. Pleasing chocolate brown surfaces, with a slightly glossy nature; a few stray marks on the reverse. A fairly scarce and interesting Americana-related French medal.

 

The commerce treaty celebrated on this medal was signed by Baron Hyde de Neuville, representing Louis XVIII of France, and John Quincy Adams, representing James Monroe and the United States.

 

Upload: 3 February 2025.