Sold For $1,503
*Includes Buyers Premium
Set of four attractive non-athletic award medals issued for the Paris 1900 Exposition Universelle, which played host to that year's Olympics. Bronze, silvered bronze, solid silver, and gilt silver, 63.5 mm, by Jules-Clement Chaplain. The front depicts a profile view of Marianne, the national symbol of the French Republic; the reverse bears an athlete with a torch riding on the back of Nike, the goddess of victory, with tablets below: "Baratte," "A. Fournier," "Piloque Père," and "A. Hindermann." The medals exhibit some surface wear, with moderate scuffs to the solid silver medal and wear to the gilt silver medal. All are housed in their cases marked "Exposition Universelle / 1900." Since this Olympics did not issue participation medals, these non-athletic award medals are often used as a placeholder in participation medal collections. With its classic Art Nouveau style, this uncommon award exists as one of the most aesthetically pleasing of all Olympic-related medals.
