FRANCE Medal ca. 1916 Military Shooting Award w. Original Box of Issue! UNC-

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1916, France (3rd Republic). Military Shooting Award w. original box. Silver Medal.

Mint Place: Paris
Mint Year: ca. 1916
Medalist: Jean Baptiste Daniel Dupuis 
Denomination: Shooting Award Medal - Official issue of the Ministry of War!
Condition: A nice AU+ medal, struck with matted dies and acompanied by the original box of issue!
Material: Silver (.950)
Weight: 64.28gm
Diameter: 50mm


Obverse: Wreathed and diademed female head ("Marianne") right. Legend: REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE

Reverse: Inscription ("Shooting prize offered by the Ministry of War.") within wreath, adorned with flags, shooting soldiers and rifles in saltire below.
Legend: PRIX DE TIR OFFERT PAR LE MINISTRE DE LA GUERRE



The French Third Republic (French: La Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the republican government of France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed, to 1940, when it was replaced by the Vichy France government after the French Third Republic's defeat to Nazi Germany in the early stages of World War II.

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