103191 | UNITED STATES. Joan of Arc bronze Medal.

103191  |  UNITED STATES. Joan of Arc bronze Medal. Issued 1919 (64mm, 12h). By Anna Hyatt Huntington for the American Numismatic Society and by the Medallic Art Co. in New York City.

 

HOMAGЄ TO THЄ MAID OF FRANCЄ, half length armored bust left, with eyes cast up toward the heavens and holding downward-facing sword in both hands // JOAN OF ARC PARK NЄW YORK DЄDICATЄD JANUARY 6 1919, banner of Joan of Arc, along with three other banners billowing in the background. Edge: 80.

 

Marqusee 206; Miller 39. PCGS SP-63. Deep brown surfaces, with a charming matte nature and some lighter hues upon the higher points. Serially marked 80 on edge. Mintage: 119.

 

A popular heroine from the latter years of the Hundred Years' War, Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) served as a rallying figure on the French side, factoring in breaking the siege of Orléans and helping to see Charles VII crowned as king in France. A very influential spiritual leader, she was captured just a few years later, whereupon she was handed over to the English, tried as a heretic, and burned at the stake. The Roman Catholic Church posthumously overturned her conviction, elevating her to a saint in 1920 by Pope Benedictus XV. In the leadup to her sainthood, this medal was commissioned by the American Numismatic Society, and was designed by Anna Hyatt Huntington, who based the medal's reverse off her 1915 monument on Riverside Drive in Manhattan.

 

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