103466 | FRANCE. "Léda et le Cygne" uniface bronze Plaque Restrike.

103466  |  FRANCE. "Léda et le Cygne" uniface bronze Plaque Restrike. Issued 1986. Édition de la Collection générale de la Monnaie series (61x100mm, 234.62 g). By Raymond Pelletier at the Paris mint.

 

Leda, with head left, raising hand to hair, and resting leg upon rock, facing slightly right and being seduced by swan to left // Blank. Edge: 1986 «cornucopia» BRONZE.

 

MdP 3, 306. Choice Mint State. Tan-bronze surfaces, with great glossiness; some scattered inconsequential marks on the reverse; a stunningly exceptional Art Deco design originally issued in 1934.

 

An iconic mythological scene represented since antiquity in various sculptures and paintings, and one which Pelletier has portrayed here in the Art Deco form of his time. It portrays a wondrous, erotic dance between Leda (a mortal) and a swan (Zeus, the king of the gods, in disguise).

 

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