1078521 | ALGERIA. Napoleon III. (Emperor, 1842-1870). 1853 Bronze Medal. PCGS SP65. By Eugène-André Oudiné (French, 1810-1887). Edge: CUIVRE (hand). 68mm. 159.18gm. Facade of the cathedral flanked by a palm-tree and a crucifix / Legend on fifteen-lines, and around. Ruedas 57; Page-Divo 161; Escande 211; CGMP p.198; cf. iNumis MBS 48, 1325; cf. DW 24, 20.

To commemorate the expansion of Saint-Philippe Cathedral.

Housed in an oversized holder.


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The expansion of the cathedral followed the destruction of the Ketchaoua mosque. The foundation stone of the expansion was laid on 15 August 1853 by the politicians Hippolyte Fortoul (1811-56) and Armand-Jacques Leroy de St Arnaud (1798-1854), but work on it was not completed until 1860.