(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. Prijs € 80.-

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)