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UNITED STATES: white metal medal, ND (1834), EF-AU

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UNITED STATES: white metal medal, ND (1834), EF-AU
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UNITED STATES: white metal medal, ND (1834), Fuld-LA.1824.3, 46mm English-made Marquis de Lafayette tribute medal by Thomas Halliday after François Caunois; GENERAL LAFAYETTE around bust right in civilian clothes, HALLIDAY F. on truncation, though the bust is identical to the Caunois work // "IN YOUTH / THE ARDENT & INTREPID / CHAMPION, / IN AGE / THE ENLIGHTENED & VENERABLE / DEFENDER / OF THE CIVIL & RELIGIOUS FREEDOM / OF HIS COUNTRY / AND OF MANKIND / BORN SEP. 6. 1757" in ten lines (the lowest curved) within a wreath of oak, EF-AU. A lovely and seldomly encountered Lafayette medal reflecting his popularity in Britain as well as France and the United States.