• France. Silver medal of honour for departments and communes (Médaille d'Honneur Départementale et Communale d'argent)
  • France. Silver medal of honour for departments and communes (Médaille d'Honneur Départementale et Communale d'argent)

France. Silver medal of honour for departments and communes (Médaille d'Honneur Départementale et Communale d'argent)

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Belgium, Leopold II (1865 - 1909). Gold Medal of the Order of Leopold II, gilt-bronze
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France. Silver medal of honour for departments and communes (Médaille d'Honneur Départementale et Communale d'argent), signed ‘G. CROUZAT’, Silvered Bronze 50 x 30 mm, weight 22,20 g., Condition aUNC, ribbon, original box

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Silvered bronze medal with a circular medallion imposed on a rayed five-pointed star, creating a pentagonal shape, on large suspension in the form of a castellated stone wall supported on laurel branches, the reverse with maker's mark of Adrien Chobillon of Paris; the face with a Gallic cockerel circumscribed ‘REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE’ above and ‘LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ’ below, signed ‘G. CROUZAT’ (for the artist Georges Crouzat, 1904-1976); the reverse with a fasces surmounted by a Phrygian bonnet, a laurel branch behind, a rectangular plaque imposed with the attribution ‘R. GOETZ’, circumscribed ‘COLLECTIVITES LOCALES’, signed ‘G. CROUZAT’ lower right; on original ribbon mounted for wear in the French style. The medal was instituted on 7 June 1945 to reward service by both employees and elected representatives of local government and replaced a number of other such medals with the aim of simplifying the system of award. For the silver medal, 25 years of service were required.
source: medal-medaille.com

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