Live auction - fme_1012947 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD II Médaille, Inauguration de la statue du roi Léopold Premier
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Inauguration de la statue du roi Léopold Premier
Date: 1877
Mint name / Town : Belgique, Mons
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 64,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver GEERTS Edouard (1846-1887)
Weight : 113,73 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron hétérogène avec des taches d’oxydation. Présence de quelques coups et rayures, notamment sur latrnache
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Blason sur un cuir tourelé, entouré de branches de laurier. Signé : ED. GEERTS F..
Reverse
Reverse legend : AU ROI LEOPOLD PREMIER - LA VILLE DE MONS LE 20 MAI 1877 // 1830-1831 / CONSTITUTION.
Reverse description : Représentation de Léopold Ier, debout et de plein pied, tenant une branche de laurier d’une main, sa couronne et la constitution de l’autre. Signé : ED. GEERTS F..
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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