103465 | FRANCE. Samuel-Jean Pozzi bronze Medal.

103465  |  FRANCE. Samuel-Jean Pozzi bronze Medal. Issued 1905. Commemorating the famous professor, gynecologist, and coin collector (68mm, 146.45 g, 12h). By Jules-Clément Chaplain at the Paris mint.

 

PROFESSEUR · SAMUEL · POZZI · DE L'ACmie DE · MEDECINE, mantled bust left, wearing the Commandeur degree of the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur // TRAITE DE GYNECOLOGIE, personification of Gynecology, wearing laurel wreath, standing slightly left and embracing nude woman seated to right on examining table; to left, Death (as a skeleton) in drapery and being warded off; tray with medical implements in front of examining table. Edge: «cornucopia» BRONZE.

 

Storer 2872; Brettauer 900. Choice Mint State. Dark tan-brown surfaces, with some pleasing glossiness.

 

Most collectors of ancient coins instantly recognize the name of Pozzi on account of the famous collection that he assembled, but he was also a fairly well known professor, surgeon, and gynecologist from the late 19th-early 20th centuries. As such, this commemorative medal celebrates him in this role, with the personification of more modern healthcare for women being shown as warding off Death.

 

Upload: 19 October 2026.