Live auction - fme_641796 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD I Médaille, Représentant belge
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| Estimate : | 400 € |
| Price : | 220 € |
| Maximum bid : | 500 € |
| End of the sale : | 09 March 2021 19:32:39 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Médaille, Représentant belge
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 49,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 43,81 g.
Edge : lisse + CROMBEZ
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire avec une jolie patine grise hétérogène et irisée malgré des traces de manipulation dans les champs. Une très légère usure sur certains hauts reliefs. Présence de quelques coups et rayures, entre autre sur la tranche à plusieurs endroits
Obverse
Obverse legend : L’UNION FAIT LA FORCE.
Obverse description : Blason coiffé d’un heaume de chevalier couronne, tenu par deux lions, sous un dais richement couronné et couronné. Drapeaux aux armes des provinces belges au dessus. Ruban timbré de la légende à l’exergue. Signé : HART - FECIT.
Reverse
Reverse legend : BELGIQUE / - / REPRÉSENTANT // CONSTITUTION / 1831.
Reverse description : Légende en 2 lignes dans une couronne de chêne et laurier, tables de la Constitution sous la légende.
Commentary
Exemplaire décerné au député François Xavier Ghislain Crombez, écuyer, né à Tournai, le 21 juillet 1829 et mort à Bruxelles le 19 janvier 1870, homme politique belge francophone libéral. Il fut échevin de Taintignies, membre du parlement et conseiller provincial de la province de Hainaut. Il fut député de 1856 à 1861.
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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