WHM 38

  • WHM 38
  • Modern
  • Medal
  • 1798AD
  • Bronze
  • Struck
  • Circular
  • 41 mm
  • 39.60g
  • Julius 662.Hennin 879.
  • Wadih Hadad Collection (Beirut), bought from Gorny & Mosch, 197, lot 7081 (Collection Mehmet Ede and Hüla Ede-Uçta).
  • 2011-03-11
  • France. Engraved by Jouannin, Brenet and Denon to commemorate the conquest of Egypt by Napoleon Bonaparte.

J.JOUANNIN . F. DENON D (on the lower part of the bust)

Bust of Napoleon facing, slightly to left, wearing a crown of lotus flowers.

L’EGYPTE CONQUISE / MDCCXCVIII.  / BRENNET. F. DENON. D. (in exergue)

Napoleon laureate standing left, holding sceptre in right hand and resting left on hip, in a biga decorated with crossed quivers and pulled by camels richly caparisoned according to Egyptian fashion; to left, the obelisk of Cleopatra and the column of Pompey; above, Victory flying right, holding palm in right hand and wreath in extended left.


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