Description
QUEBEC Ludger Gravel Premier Prix d’Arithmetique 38.09mm bronze medal 23.93 grams
Obverse: conjoined busts of Pope Sylvester II and King Solomon facing right, MEDAILLE LUDGER GRAVEL / SYLVESTRE II / ROI SALOMON / CARON MONTREAL
Reverse: wreath of oak leaves, PREMIER PRIX D'ARTHMETIQUE
Edge: plain
Ludger Gravel (1864-1933) was a prominent Canadian numismatist, Montreal merchant and a governor of the Montreal Antiquarian and Numismatic Society. More of his life can be learned from the following Dictionary of Canadian Biography link
Obverse: conjoined busts of Pope Sylvester II and King Solomon facing right, MEDAILLE LUDGER GRAVEL / SYLVESTRE II / ROI SALOMON / CARON MONTREAL
Reverse: wreath of oak leaves, PREMIER PRIX D'ARTHMETIQUE
Edge: plain
Ludger Gravel (1864-1933) was a prominent Canadian numismatist, Montreal merchant and a governor of the Montreal Antiquarian and Numismatic Society. More of his life can be learned from the following Dictionary of Canadian Biography link
