Superb medal with its original luster and beautiful gilt-silver colour. Old cleaning visible in the fields with some hairlines. A very attractive collector’s coin.

Medal signed by Depaulis illustrating a major historical event:

King Louis-Philippe sent his son, François, Prince de Joinville, to St Helena to bring back the remains of Napoleon on the La Belle-Poule, a 60-gun frigate. The Prince had sailed from Toulon on 7 July 1840 and arrived in St Helena on 8 October. The body passed through Rouen on 10 December and arrived in Paris five days later.

This is an original strike. The medal is offered in its case, accompanied by a small handwritten paper note.

Extremely rare vermeil medal, with only one other example found in archival records. This issue is far more commonly encountered in copper.

Vermeil: silver gilded with fine gold.