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Lot of 3 Liberation of London medals in gold, silver and bronze, all official 20th-century French re

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Lot of 3 Liberation of London medals in gold, silver and bronze, all official 20th-century French re
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Lot of 3 Liberation of London medals in gold, silver and bronze, all official 20th-century French replicas of a Constantius I (as Caesar) medal from the 1922 Arras Hoard. 57.2, 25.9 and 22.7 grams. In 1922 an amazing hoard of Roman medals, coins and jewelry was found at Beaurains, near Arras, France, among which was this famous large, gold medal depicting Constantius on obverse and reverse with the conqueror above a galley approaching the London city gates (where there is a kneeling citizen). The original went to the French national collection, but the French coin dealer Bourgey was given the rights to make cast replicas of it. The silver and bronze replicas are common, as is also an 18.3-gram gold-plated version, but the solid-gold specimen in this set is rare and in any case represents 2 oz of gold! with Askew book The Coinage of Roman Britain (1980 Seaby edition, missing many pages), in which this medal and the hoard are described.