Historical Objects / Medals

Collection of Tyler Yates

Bicentenary of the Annexation of Lille to France

Engraver:
A. Bureau
Year:
1867
Country:
France
Diameter:
91 mm
Obverse:
South side of the Paris Gate in Lille.
VILLE DE LILLE
PORTE DE PARIS
A.BUREAU A LILLE.
DÉPOSÉE
P. J. DEBORGIES Gradeur
Reverse:
A wreath composed of an oak branch and a laurel branch, linked at the bottom by a ribbon.
FÊTE BISSÉCULAIRE 27 AOÛT 1867
References:
Essai de biographie lilloise contemporaine, 1800-1869; Hippolyte Verly; p. 32

Medal commemorating the bicentenary of the annexation of Lille to France in 1667. This medal was struck on the occasion of the official trip of Napoleon III and Eugénie to the North in August 1867.

The medal is etched with the name of a person: 'P. J. DEBORGIES'.

The edge of the medal is stamped with a bee and the word 'CUIVRE'.