E-auction 620-607402 - V REPUBLIC Médaille, Ville d’Ajaccio et Bonaparte
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Type : Médaille, Ville d’Ajaccio et Bonaparte
Date: 1978
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 76,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver COURBIER Marcel (1898-1976)
Weight : 256,35 g.
Edge : lisse + 1978 + corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Médaille nettoyée. Présence de concrétions blanches dans le creux des reliefs. Présence de coups et rayures
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VILLE D’AJACCIO.
Obverse description : Buste à gauche de Napoléon Bonaparte, signé : COURBIER.
Reverse
Reverse legend : CINQ ROIS SONT NES DANS TES MURAILLES, CINQ ENFANTS QUI BURENT TON LAIT / ET QUI AU NOM DE LEURS BATAILLES PEUVENT TE FAIRE UN CHAPELET // 1965.
Reverse description : Vue sur une partie de la ville d’Ajaccio et de la mer, blason de la ville à droite et profil dessiné de l’aigle napoléonien.
Commentary
Médaille conservée dans un écrin rouge.
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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