fme_834779 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - REIGN OF LEOPOLD III Médaille, Inauguration des couronnes olympiques du travail
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Type : Médaille, Inauguration des couronnes olympiques du travail
Date: 1935
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 64,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 105,07 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène. Présence de quelques coups et rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : (LÉGENDE EN GREC).
Obverse description : Buste casqué de profil à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : DEVXIEME EXPOSITION NATIONALE DV TRAVAIL // LE 21 JVILLET / MDCCCCXXXV / S. M. LEOPOLD III / A INAVGVRE / LES COVRONNES / OLYMPIQVES / DV TRAVAIL.
Reverse description : Légende circulaire et en 8 lignes.
Historical background
BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - REIGN OF LEOPOLD III
(17/12/1934-21/9/1944-16/7/1951)
Son of Albert I and grand-nephew of Leopold II, Leopold III became king following the accidental death of his father. In 1936, faced with threats of war, he put an end to the alliance with France and reaffirmed the neutrality of Belgium. In 1940, during the German invasion, he took command of the army but was quickly forced to sign an unconditional surrender. A prisoner of war, he refused any collaboration and ceased all political activity. Taken to Germany then liberated by the Allies, he retired to Switzerland while a regency was entrusted to his brother, Prince Charles (September 21, 1944). Much criticized, he regained the throne in 1950 after a referendum on the resumption of his powers. Welcomed by strikes and demonstrations, he then named Baudoin "royal prince" then abdicated in his favor in July 1951. He died in 1983.
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