Obverse: bust to left. IULIUS HARDOUIN MANSART COM. SAG. S. REG. ÆD. PR
Reverse: seated Allegory of the Arts. ET PROTEGIT ET COLIT ARTES
Edge: plain.
Silvered bronze, struck in the 19th century.
Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646-1708) was Count of Sagonne and a renowned French architect. He was First Architect to King Louis XIV and Superintendent of the King's Buildings. He is the nephew of the architect François Mansart.
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