(Frankrijk), Prijspenning van de Ecole de Medécine te Parijs, l’an 6 (1798)

(Frankrijk) Prijspenning van de Ecole de Medécine te Parijs, 1798. Vz: de rechtsgewende portretten van de 16e-eeuwse Franse medici Jean Fernel en Ambroise Paré. Kz: opschrift. Brons 60 mm. (Verkocht)

France, medal commemorating the reunion of physicians and surgeons, and the organization of the three medical schools of Paris, Montpellier, and Strassburg by Fernel and Paré, issued as a prize medal. 

Obverse: two accolated busts facing to right, both clothed, Fernel wearing cap; around, JEAN FERNEL • AMBROISE PARE • ; in exergue, in four parallel lines, LA MEDCINE RENDUE A SON / UNITÉ PRIMITIVE. / DÉCRET DU 14 FRIMAIRE. / AN III DE LA R.F. ; to left of the busts, GATTEAUX.

Reverse: ÉCOLE DE MÉDECINE DE PARIS. ; in four parallel lines, PRIX/ DEL’ECOLE / PRATIQVE / AN VI. Exergue, Staff of Aesculapius, prone to right. (Freeman 728; Storer 1019)  (sold)