Live auction - fme_1020001 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD I Médaille, Goswin de Stassart
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Goswin de Stassart
Date: 1854
Metal : copper
Diameter : 67,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver WIENER Léopold (1823-1891)
Weight : 127,39 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Belle patine marron hétérogène avec quelques points d’oxydation. Petite usure. Présence de coups et rayures notamment sur la tranche
Obverse
Obverse legend : GOSWIN JOSEPH AUG.N - BARON DE STASSART.
Obverse description : Tête de profil à droite, signé : LEOPOLD WIENER F..
Reverse
Reverse legend : NE A MALINES LE 2 SEPT. 1780 - MORT A BRUXELLES 10 OCT. 1854 // SEMPER - FIDELIS // INT.R DU TYROL, DE KOENIGSBERG, DE BERLIN 1805-8 / PREFET DE VAUCLUSE 1809, / DES BOLCHES DE LA MEUSE 1810 / MEMBRE DES ETATS GENERAUX 1821 / PRES.T DU COMITE DE L’INTERIEUR 1830 / VICE PRES.T DU CONGRES 1830 / PRESIDENT DU SENAT 1831 / GOUVERNEUR DE NAMUR 1830, / DU BRABANT 1834 / PRES.T DE L’ACAD.IE ROY.E DE BELGIQUE 1835 / M.BRE C.T DE L’INSTITUT DE FRANCE 1837 / MINISTRE PLENIPOT.RE / 1840..
Reverse description : Légende circulaire et en 13 lignes dans une couronne de palmes, enrubannée, sous un blason sur cuir couronné.
Commentary
Goswin de Stassart, baron de Stassart (1780-1854) est un homme d'État et écrivain belge du XIXe siècle.
Historical background
BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD I
(4/06/1831-10/12/1865)
Leopold (16/12/1790-10/12/1865) is the son of François de Saxe-Cobourg and the uncle of Victoria I. He fights Napoleon in the Russian army. Naturalized English in 1816, he married Charlotte of Hanover and found himself a widower the following year. Léopold had just refused the crown of Greece when he was elected King of the Belgians on June 4, 1831. The following year, he married Louise d'Orléans (1812-1850), the daughter of Louis-Philippe. She gives him three children including Leopold II and Charlotte, the unfortunate wife of Maximilian of Austria, shot in Mexico. He is morganatically married to the actress Caroline Bauer from whom he must separate to marry the daughter of the King of the French. The London Conference of July 1831 settled territorial problems and the treaty of eighteen articles was accepted by the National Congress on July 9, 1831. Leopold was triumphantly welcomed on July 21, 1831. He had to fight against the Dutch army and received the nickname of "shield of Belgium", safeguarding the independence of the "flat country" against the Prussia of William I and the France of Napoleon III. He relies politically on England.
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