WHPL 1

  • WHPL 1
  • Modern
  • Plaque
  • 1923
  • s
  • Copper alloy
  • Struck
  • 79mm
  • 26mm
  • 191.30g
  • 12h
  • Wadih Hadad Collection (Beirut). iNumis, Mail Bid Sale 9, 1589.
  • 2009-11-05
  • Plaque produced in the effigy of General Gouraud, the French high-commissioner of Syria and Lebanon, by the famous 20th century medal engraver Henry Nocq in 1923.

GENERAL GOURAUD | HAUT-COMMISSAIRE | EN SYRIE ET AU LIBAN (below),

Bust of General Gouraud right

HENRY NOCQ 1923 (to left, downward).

FOIRE-EXPOSITION | DE | BEYROUTH | 1921 | COMITÉ FRANÇAIS | DES | EXPOSITIONS (below),

View of Beirut through a decorated ogival window, with a cactus beneath.


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