World Medals: Bovy, Jean-François-Antoine (Swiss, 1795-1877); b. Geneva, moved to France 1830 FRANCE, République Française, 1848 [struck 1881], a silver-gilt award medal after J.-F.-A. Bovy adapted for the Comice Agricole de l’Arrondissement de Rouen, robed figure of Marianne seated facing on throne, holding a sceptre and a laurel wreath, Gallic cock at left, rev. wreath, named (Offert par Mr. Legras, Boos, 1881), edge impressed argent and cornucopia, 57mm, 91.51g (cf. CGB Nov. 2023, 445, for obv.; cf. iNumis MBS 28, 1725, for obv.; cf. DNW 49, 819, for obv.). Good very fine £80-£100 The obverse was originally executed for a medal to commemorate the declaration of the Second Republic in 1848. Boos, dép. Seine-Maritime