fme_675601 - COLLECTION CARS - PILOTS AND INVENTIONS Médaille, Victor Hémery
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Type : Médaille, Victor Hémery
Date: 1974
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 67,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 161,54 g.
Edge : lisse + 1974 + corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène, des concrétions vertes au revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : VICTOR HEMERY - 1876-1948.
Obverse description : Buste de profil à droite, le visage légèrement de face, signé : A. BLOC.
Reverse
Reverse legend : GAGNANT DE LA COUPE VANDERBILT // 14 OCT. 1905.
Reverse description : Représentation de l’arrivée de Victor Hemery à la Cupe Vanderbilt.
Commentary
Victor Hémery (1876-1950) est un pilote automobile français, ayant remporté le Grand Prix de France 1911.
Historical background
COLLECTION CARS - PILOTS AND INVENTIONS
The automobile is a major technological invention that has considerably changed the societies of many countries during the 20th century. It originated in the 19th century during the Industrial Revolution, when technology gave pride of place to the steam engine as a source of energy, to then turn massively towards oil and the internal combustion engine, with the long-neglected competitor the electric motor.
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