Funeral Medal of Sadi Carnot – President of the Republic – Signed by Oscar Roty
Superb, in silver
Weight: 155.6 g
Dimensions: 57 x 80 mm
Obverse:
IER JUILLET (date of Sadi Carnot’s funeral)
SADI CARNOT
PRESIDENT
DE LA
REPUBLIQUE
FRANÇAISE
Funeral procession heading towards the Pantheon (to bury Sadi Carnot alongside his grandfather Lazare Carnot)
Signature: O. Roty
Reverse:
At the top :
XXIV JUIN MDCCCXCIV (June 24, 1894, date of the attack against Sadi Carnot, President of the Republic, stabbed around 9:15 p.m. by an Italian anarchist, and who died on June 25 at 12:40 a.m., the surgeons being unable to contain the bleeding)
View of Lyon (place of the attack) in the distance with the Notre-Dame de Fourvière basilica.
Female allegory representing France, veiled, in front of the mortal remains of Sadi Carnot.
At the bottom: DANS LE DEUIL DE LA PATRIE
Edge:
Hallmark Cornucopia (Paris Mint) + ARGENT
