Live auction - fme_959520 - GERMANY - KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA - WILLIAM I Médaille, Visite à Strasbourg
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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | 82 € |
| Maximum bid : | 117 € |
| End of the sale : | 08 October 2024 16:19:52 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Médaille, Visite à Strasbourg
Date: 1877
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 60 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver SCHWENZER Karl (1843-1904)
Weight : 97,71 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des taches de couleurs. Concrétions vertes. Coups et rayures sur la tranche. Légère usure
Catalogue references :
Marienburg6125 - Menadier451 - Klein1987
Obverse
Obverse legend : WILHELM I. - DEUTSCHER KAISER.
Obverse description : Représentation de l’empereur Guillaume Ier, assis sur un trône, de face, tenant une épée d’une main et un globe crucigère de l’autre. Champ à gauche avec un aigle timbré d’un blason sur fond de feuillage de chêne. Champ à droite avec trois blasons sur une branche de chêne.
Reverse
Reverse legend : (FLEUR) ZUR ERINNEGUNG AN DEN EINZUG KAISER WILHELM I. IN STRASBURG AM I. MAI 1877 // 24-27 / SEPT. / 1876 // 1-9 / MAI / 1877 // À L’EXERGUE : DAS WALTE GOTT.
Reverse description : Allégorie féminine vêtue à l’antique et tourelée, debout et de face sous une arche décorée de guirlandes de fleurs, tenant une palme d’une main et s’appuyant sur un blason de l’autre. Vue sur la cathédrale de Strasbourg dans le lointain. Blasons de part et d’autre de l’arche. Signé : K. SCHWENZER.
Historical background
GERMANY - KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA - WILLIAM I
(2/01/1861-9/03/1888)
Guillaume I is the second son of Frédéric Guillaume III and the brother of Frédéric Guillaume IV. He has been regent for his brother since 1856 when he succeeded him in 1861. He marries Augusta of Saxe-Weimar from whom he has two children including Frederick III. With his minister Otto von Bismarck, he will achieve German unity. The Austro-Prussian War of 1866 with Sadowa's victory rid him of Austria and strengthen the North German Confederation. The war started against France in 1870 will bring him, by the Treaty of Frankfurt, Alsace and Lorraine on May 10, 1871. On January 28, 1871, he was crowned Emperor of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.. The payment of the indemnity of 5 billion gold francs paid by France will enable it to succeed in its monetary reform, based on the gold standard. Bismarck remains Prime Minister of Prussia and imposes his views on foreign policy: isolation of France, alliance with Italy, Austria and Russia. The Berlin Congress allows Germany to pose as the arbiter of Europe and to constitute a colonial empire in Africa, Asia and Oceania. William I died in his nineties in 1888..
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