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Great Britain - 1814

Paix de Paris - Four Sovereigns - 2nd

Obverse:

Conjoined laureate heads of the four Allied Sovereigns, right NVNQVAM VIDEBIMUS EIS SIMILES ITERVM. (We shall never see their like again).

Size:

48 mm.

Reverse:

Peace standing holding cornucopia and laurel branch. AVSPICIVM MELIORIS AEVI. (The commencement of a better era).

Exergue:

PAX PER EVROPAM / MDCCCXIV. / MAI . XXX . (Peace throughout Europe, 1814 May 30).

Vern's Comments:

As you can see this truly was a common medal. The first example on the site is a bit more beat up, nevertheless, this one was available for under twenty dollars US.

Bramsen:

Bramsen - 1459
Paix de Paris

NVNQVAM VIDEBIMUS EIS SIMILES ITERVM Bustes laurés superposés des quatre souverains alliés, à droite.

Rev: AVSPICIVM MELIORIS AEVI. La Paix debout, à gauche.

Dessous: THOMASON DIREX.

Exergue: PAX PER EVROPAM MDCCCXIV. MAI. XXX.

Médaille, 47 mm. - T. N. 62, 8.

d'Essling:

d'Essling - 1511
Paix de Paris (Thomason)

NVNQVAM VIDEBIMUS EIS SIMILES ITERVM Bustes accolés à dr. des 4 souverains alliés.

R. AVSPICIVM MELIORIS AEVI. La Paix debout, à g.

(T N. 62.8 - App. 87 - B. 1459). Arg. et br. 48 mm.

BHM:

AE, WM 48 by T. Halliday, published by E. Thomason.
AE C; WM C.
AM; BM; BMAG; FM; ML.
Fi. 760.

On the 30th May the allied powers of Great Britain, Austria, Russia and Prussia signed the treaty at Paris, by which the boundaries of France were restored as they existed in January 1792 but with considerable augmentations. The frequency with which this piece is now met with can be confirmed by Thomason's Memoirs (pp. 71-2) where he states that 'the die was literally worn out in striking for the demand'.

from British Historical Medals, Volume 1, p. 193