This medal commemorates Benjamin Franklin and Baron Antoine de Montyon, issued by the Société Montyon et Franklin to promote the history of humanity's benefactors. You may see asking prices for up to $100 but sales show it trading at about $20. It appears to have glue on the back. Was this with the other medal you asked about that you found glued to a board at a garage sale? It sounds like it may have been a set of Franklin medals that someone either purchased or assembled themselves? Context of how you found them is helpful. We all hope for that great garage sale find.
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This coin weighs 32 grams and is 1.5in in diameter. It has some tarnish under the glue on the back from where it was stuck to a board. I got it at a garage sale. The front says Franklin Bienfaisance Du Genie, Barre, and Montyon Genie De La Bientaisance. The back has a lot of words and the date 1833.
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