France, Shooting Contest Bronze Award Medal, ND ca. 1900, Medal, UNC

France, Shooting Contest Bronze Award Medal, ND ca. 1900 Medal, UNC, Silver washed bronze. 50mm. EM: Bronze, Cornucopia. By Louis Octave Mattei and Alphée Dubois. Obv: France, seated at left, facing right, with palm branch, partially-clad youth standing, looking right, holding flag; rifleman in mid-ground holding rifle and used shooting target; rifle range and landscape in the background at right; legend and Alphée Dubois in exergue below; Rv: Laurel wreath interwoven with four rifles, two pistols at the bow, and target above, blank central field. Signed A.D. at bottom. A popular obverse that was paired with many other shooting contest reverses. Slight cabinet rub at high points on Obv and a small hit in center Rv. From the T.H.G Collection.