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| Location | France |
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| Composition | Gilt bronze |
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| Obverse description | Detailed relief depiction of the large greenhouse complex of Lyon's botanical garden, featuring the principal domed and arched glass structures flanked by smaller pavilions, with tropical trees and ornamental shrubs visible in the foreground. The legend appears in two lines across the lower field. |
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| Obverse lettering | Les Grandes Serres du Jardin Botanique |
| Reverse description | A stylised heraldic lion passant in high relief occupies the centre of the field, rendered in a bold graphic style with radiating lines suggesting a sun or halo behind the head. The legend 'VILLE DE LYON' appears in a horizontal cartouche across the middle of the field, with decorative foliate and floral elements filling the lower portion. |
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