Title:VERY nice AND RARE medal; [medal] Medal for J.B. Poquelin de Molière / Jules-Clément Chaplain, medalist obverse; Ernest Paulin Tasset, medalist obverse ; Michel Eugène Blondelet, medalist reverse ; Rubineau, publisher. Author: Chaplain, Jules Clément, 1839-1909 viaf Molière, 1622-1673 via pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Depicted) Blondelet, Michel Eugène, 1840-1929 Tasset, Ernest Paulin, 1839-1921 Publisher: Paris : Rubineau, [1860-1900] Paris Description: 1 medal: Struck, medal stroke. ; Diameter 51.6mm ; weight 60.3 g. bronze Contents: Recto: Bust to the left of Molière with long hair and hat; around, J • B • POQUELIN (left) DE MOLIERE (right) ; around a pearl circle and a raised edge; left along the pearl circle, CHAPLAIN ET TASSET FECT. and right along the pearl circle, RUBINEAU EDITOR Verso: A woman stands in front view wearing a long robe; she has a wreath on her head with a star and a standing torch in her left hand; she holds a laurel wreath with her right hand above a beehive to her right, from which some of them fly out together; to her right a pedestal decorated with leafy branches and also on top of it; around top, PRÆMIA MAGNA QUIDEM (left) SED NON INDEBITA DONO (right) ; left on the cut, deepened, BLONDELET ; around a profiled edge. Subject: Molière, Poquelin, Jean-Baptiste, 1622-1673 Medals. z Numismatics. (source)UGENT Medals. (source)UGENT