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fme_965681 - ALGERIA - LOUIS PHILIPPE Médaille, Prise d'Alger par le comte de Bourmont

ALGERIA - LOUIS PHILIPPE Médaille, Prise d Alger par le comte de Bourmont XF/AU
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Type : Médaille, Prise d'Alger par le comte de Bourmont
Date: 1830
Mint name / Town : Paris
Metal : copper
Diameter : 40,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver CAQUÉ Armand Auguste (1795-1881)
Weight : 24,66 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron hétérogène présentant des taches d’oxydation et concrétions. Légère usure. Beaux reliefs au revers
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : CONQUÊTE - D'ALGER LE 5 - JUILLET 1830.
Obverse description : La Victoire et Athéna volant à droite au-dessus d'un cheval de mer terrassé ; au-dessous DURAND ÉDITEUR.

Reverse


Reverse legend : LÉGENDE EN CINQ LIGNES : LE COMTE / DE BOURMONT / GÉNÉRAL EN CHEF / DE L'ARMÉE / FRANÇAISE..
Reverse description : dans une couronne continue de lauriers ; au-dessous, signé CAQUÉ F..

Commentary


Cette médaille a contrario de ce qu'affirme P. Escande, est de très bon style et ne comporte pas de poinçon sur la tranche. Elle pourrait être antérieure à 1846, date de la mort du maréchal de Bourmont.

Historical background


ALGERIA - LOUIS PHILIPPE

(1830-1848)

Two Algerian Jewish merchants who had the privilege of selling grain negotiated with the French Republic, under the Directory, the sale of a cargo for a total of 24 million francs, or three times the normal price. The cargo is delivered to France, but the sum will never be paid. The dey of Algiers (1773-1838) claimed in 1818 from Louis XVIII, this sum of which he was a creditor. The debt was reduced to 7 million francs in 1819. He received 4 the following year. The dey wrote to Charles X in 1826 to claim payment of the other three million. On April 29, the dey, not receiving a royal response, struck with his fly swatter, Pierre Deval, French consul in Algiers. Apologies are requested, the dey refuses and diplomatic relations are broken. On May 25, a fleet of 103 warships and 572 merchant ships left Marseilles with 37,500 men. Marshal de Bourmont is commander-in-chief. The landing took place on June 14, 1830 in Sidi-Ferruch. Algiers is taken on July 5, the dey leaves the city for exile. The conquest of Algeria begins.

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