fme_873059 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD II Médaille, Célébration du cinquantenaire de l’Université catholique de Louvain
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Type : Médaille, Célébration du cinquantenaire de l’Université catholique de Louvain
Date: 1884
Metal : copper
Diameter : 50 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 40,51 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron hétérogène, du rouge de frappe visible au revers. Traces de nettoyage
Obverse
Obverse legend : AD. CELEBRANDVM. ANNVM. QVINQVAGESIMVM - AB. VNIVERSITATE. CATH. LOVAN. RENOVATA // À L’EXERGUE : MDCCCXXXIV MDCCCLXXXIV.
Obverse description : Représentation d’une Vierge à l’enfant, assise sur un trône.
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROCESSVS. TRIVMPHALIS. HISTORICVS. EXIIT. XII. XIII. XVIII. MAI MDCCCLXXXIV.
Reverse description : Représentation d’un char de procession tiré par 2 chevaux. Signé : WURGEN.
Historical background
BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD II
(10/12/1865-17/12/1909)
Leopold II (9/04/1835-17/12/1909) is the eldest son of Leopold I and Louise d'Orléans. He married Marie-Henriette, Archduchess of Austria, who bore him three daughters: Louise, Stéphanie, and Clémentine. He relied on England to repel the aims of Napoleon III in 1866-1869. His reign was marked by the economic and industrial development of Belgium, which also became a great colonial power thanks to the personal annexation of the Congo by the king at the Congress of Berlin in 1885. Without a male heir, his nephew Albert I succeeded him. in 1909. He bequeathed the Congo to Belgium in 1908.
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