fme_613280 - V REPUBLIC Médaille, Première traversée de l’Atlantique en ballon libre
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Type : Médaille, Première traversée de l’Atlantique en ballon libre
Date: 1979
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Metal : gold plated bronze
Diameter : 71,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 221,5 g.
Edge : lisse + 1979 + corne BR FLOR
Puncheon : corne BR. FL.
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène. Quelques traces de manipulation. Exemplaire dans sa boîte cartonnée bleue
Obverse
Obverse legend : 12 AOUT / 17 AOUT / 1978 // DOUBLE EAGLE II.
Obverse description : Montgolfière au milieu de l’Océan Atlantique.
Reverse
Reverse legend : MAX ANDERSON / LARRY NEWMAN / BEN ABRUZZO / 137 / HEURES / 5 MINUTES / 50 SECONDES / 5001.22 KM // PREMIERE TRAVERSEE DE L’ATLANTIQUE EN BALLON LIBRE - FIRST ATLANTIC CROSSING IN A GAS BALLOON.
Reverse description : Visages des trois personnages ayant participé à la travers de l’Atlantique en ballon libre. Vue sur une carte de l’Atlantique, de l’Europe et des Etats-Unis.
Historical background
V REPUBLIC
(since 08/01/1959)
The Fifth Republic, whose constitution was approved by referendum on September 28, 1958 by more than 79% of French people, only officially began with the installation of General de Gaulle as president on January 8, 1959. The constitution was amended on January 28, 1958. October 1962 by referendum where a majority of 62% of votes approves the election of the President of the Republic by direct universal suffrage. The various presidents of the Fifth Republic are Charles de Gaulle (8/01/1959 - 27/04/1969, retirement and Alain Poher becomes interim president), Georges Pompidou (15/06/1969 - 2/04/1974, deceased , Alain Poher becomes interim president), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (19/05/1974 - 21/05/1981), François Mitterrand (21/05/1981 - 7/05/1995), Jacques Chirac (7/05 /1995 - 05/16/2007), Nicolas Sarkozy (05/16/2007 - 05/15/2012), François Hollande (05/15/2012 - 05/14/2017) and Emmanuel Macron (05/14/2017 - ).
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