103467 | FRANCE. "Léda et le Cygne" uniface bronze Plaque Restrike.

103467  |  FRANCE. "Léda et le Cygne" uniface bronze Plaque Restrike. Issued 1988. Édition de la Collection générale de la Monnaie series (60x100mm, 283.64 g). By André Lavrillier at the Paris mint.

 

Leda left, with knee set upon draped base, being seduced by swan to left // Blank. Edge: 1988 «cornucopia» BRONZE.

 

Cf. Maier 313 (for original); cf. MdP 3, 228c (same). Gem Mint State. Tan-bronze surfaces, with great glossiness. An enticing reissue of this classical and immensely exceptional Art Deco design originally issued in the early 1920s.

 

An iconic mythological scene represented since antiquity in various sculptures and paintings, and one which Lavrillier 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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