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Medal Name: Treaty Of Commerce With France
Struck for: the United States
OBVERSE
TREATY OF COMMERCE WITH FRANCE. LVDOVICVS. XVIII FRANC. ET. NAV. REX. (Ludovicus XVIII. Franciæ et Navarræ rex: Louis XVIII, King of France and Navarre.)
Bust of Louis the Eighteenth, facing the right de puymaurin direxit (directed)
REVERSE
GALLIA. ET. AMERICA. FOEDERATA. (France and America allied.)
France and America, personified as two female figures, standing, leaning on a column, on which is a bust of Mercury. France, beside whom is a shield bearing the three fleurs de lis, holds in her right hand a cornucopia, and
America rests her left hand on the prow of a galley;
on the face of the column is engraved: MDCCCXXII (1822).
Exergue: NOVIS.COMMERCIORVM. PACTIS IVNCTAE (United by new treaties of commerce.)
BACKGROUND
This medal was struck to celebrate the signing of the treaty between the United States and France in 1822.
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Source: The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. Loubat, LL.D. (1878)