PCGS SP64 1855 France Paris Exposition Medal by Caque, Manguin & J. Wiener TOP!!
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FRANCE: Napoléon III, 1852-1870, AE medal (20.92g), ND (1855), Divo-257, 37mm bronze medal by Caque, Manguin & J. Wiener for the Exposition Universelle; NAPOLÉON III EMPEREUR EUGÉNIE IMPÉRATRICE, conjoined heads of Napoléon III and Eugénie; CAQUÉ. F. below // Interior of the galleries of the Palais de l'Industrie, in exergue, J. WIENER F. / MANGUIN D. in small letters, PALAIS DE L'INDUSTRIE / VUE DES GALERIES in larger letters, GERVAIS ET Cie EDIT. in small curved letters in bottom line, a wonderful specimen quality example! PCGS graded Specimen 64. The Exposition Universelle of 1855, better known in English as the 1855 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France, from 15 May to 15 November 1855. Its full official title was the Exposition Universelle des produits de l'Agriculture, de l'Industrie et des Beaux-Arts de Paris 1855. It was the first of ten major expositions held in the city between 1855 and 1937.
