Summary

Medal l'Ecole des Mines du Mont-Blanc, 'School of Mines, Mont-Blanc', Issued by France, 1804
Artist: Nicholas Guy Antoine Brenet
Mint not recorded

This example seems to have been produced in two halves, obverse and reverse, then joined

Obverse Description

Laureate head of Napoleon facing right, around, NAPOLEON EMPEREUR; below head in small lettering, DENON DIR. ANDRIEU F.

Reverse Description

Mont-Blanc represented as an old man of colossal size in a crouching attitude, blind from age, his head bald and capped with clouds, his beard long, flowing to the base of the mountain, which is washed by the sea in which a fish swims and on which his left foot rests; his right hand, from which a river (up which a fish swims) flows grasps a mountain steep, under which appears a cavern, where two miners work; his left hand in repose, lies across his left thigh (again with a river and fish but confused with his beard); in exergue, ECOLE DES MINES DU / MONT BLANC; in small lettering on exergue line, BRENET. F. DENON. D.

Edge Description

Plain

Significance

Struck to commemorate the establishment of schools for the instruction of students in the art of mining and mineralogy

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