Medal Dunkirk Chamber of Commerce – signed Maurice Delannoy
Bronze
Weight: 61,4 g
Diameter: 49,5 mm
Obverse:
Circular inscription: ⬪ CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE DUNKERQUE
In the center the Great Arms of Dunkirk (History: Louis XIV visited the city in 1662, the bourgeois wanting to honor their new master with an allusion to his son, the Dauphin born the previous year, the fish turns into a dolphin and the lion becomes passerby. These coats of arms are supported by an armored and armed sailor.
The coat of arms becomes: Coupé, in chief Or a lion passant Sable, in point Argent a dolphin lying Azure crested and eared Gules.)
Signature: M. Delannoy
Reverse:
Port of Dunkirk dominated by the fire of Saint-Pol, commissioned in 1939.
À l’exergue : un cartouche vierge accosté d’un caducée et d’une ancre de marine.
1939
Edge:
Cornucopia hallmark (Paris Mint) + BRONZE
