SOLD Bronze Medal of Saint Joan of Arc by Josette Hébert-Coëffin 1931 Depicting Young Joan in Armour and Cross Rising From Fire On The Reverse
SOLD Bronze Medal of Saint Joan of Arc by Josette Hébert-Coëffin 1931 Depicting Young Joan in Armour and Cross Rising From Fire On The Reverse

SOLD Bronze Medal of Saint Joan of Arc by Josette Hébert-Coëffin 1931 Depicting Young Joan in Armour and Cross Rising From Fire On The Reverse

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Bronze Medal of Saint Joan of Arc by Josette Hébert-Coëffin 1956 Depicting Young Joan in Armour and Cross Rising From Fire On The Reverse

A rare and beautiful medal of Joan of Arc the patron saint of France struck by Josette Hébert-Coëffin the 500th Anniversary of her acquittal of the charges of heresey in 1456.

This stunning medal shows the young Joan of Arc with cropped hair in her armour and the reverse has a cross emerging from a fire.

The medal is solid bronze and to verify this it has the Cornucopia mark and the word BRONZE on the edge. It is 3.2 centimetres in diameter and it weighs 19.2 grams.

Twenty years after she was condemned for heresy and was burnt at the stake, Joan was acquitted of the charges as the result of a papal inquest that ran from 1452 to 1456. The medal for the quincentenary of her rehabilitation by Josette Hébert-Coëffin depicts Joan in a boyish hairdo and elegant armor on the obverse and a cross rising out of a bonfire on the reverse. Bronze, 72 mm., edge marked cornucopia BRONZE.

Despite her being one of the most famous and revered figures in French history, and the patron saint of France, it took nearly 500 years for her to be actually made a saint.

Joan of Arc, a peasant girl living in medieval France, believed that God had chosen her to lead France to victory in its long-running war with England. With no military training, Joan convinced the embattled crown prince Charles of Valois to allow her to lead a French army to the besieged city of Orléans, where it achieved a momentous victory over the English and their French allies, the Burgundians. After seeing the prince crowned King Charles VII, Joan was captured by Anglo-Burgundian forces, tried for witchcraft and heresy and burned at the stake in 1431, at the age of 19. By the time she was officially canonized in 1920, the Maid of Orléans (as she was known) had long been considered one of history’s greatest saints, and an enduring symbol of French unity and nationalism.