Joan of Arc, a peasant girl from Domremy, said she was guided by saints’ voices to help the French in the Hundred Years’ War. In 1429 she helped lift the siege of Orleans and saw Charles VII crowned at Reims. She was captured, tried and burned at Rouen in 1431, aged about 19. She was cleared in 1456, made a saint in 1920 and became a national symbol of France; the Cross of Lorraine linked to her later became the emblem of the Free French in WWII.
Castings, Coins
KM-1100 Joan of Arc Commemorative Medal
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Photo of the original medal. Profile bust of Joan of Arc facing left, wearing a laurel wreath and an armoured collar, with the legend JEANNE D’ARC. On the left is her coat of arms (a crown held up by a sword between two fleurs-de-lis) on a Cross of Lorraine. Signed with the monogram FV. Inscriptions explained: JEANNE D’ARC is French for ‘Joan of Arc’. FV is the medallist’s signature (initials).
