fme_914544 - SECOND REPUBLIC Médaillette, Honneur aux colons d’Algérie
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Type : Médaillette, Honneur aux colons d’Algérie
Date: 1848
Metal : silver plated brass
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,51 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Belle patine argentée, présentant quelques taches d’oxydation et une petite usure sur les reliefs
Obverse
Obverse legend : * REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE.* - 1848.
Obverse description : Allégorie féminine de face, drapée à l’antique, tenant une lance coiffée d’un bonnet et tenant un bouclier.
Reverse
Reverse legend : HONNEUR AUX BRAVES COLONS FRANÇAIS DE L’ALGERIE // LIBERTE / EGALITE / FRATERNITE / *.
Reverse description : Légende circulaire et en 3 lignes dans une couronne de laurier sous un bonnet phrygien.
Commentary
Diamètre sans bélière : 23,5 mm.
Historical background
SECOND REPUBLIC
(02/24/1848-12/2/1852)
Louis-Napoleon was elected on December 10, 1848 as the first President of the Second Republic. He did not have the right to run again in 1852. Louis-Napoleon decided to make a coup planned for December 2, 1851, the anniversary of the coronation of the Eagle and the commemoration of the Battle of Austerlitz. The coup is ratified by a plebiscite on December 21 with more than 7.5 million YES and only 640,000 NO. Victor Hugo went into exile on December 12. The following year, he will publish "Napoléon le Petit" which will earn Louis-Napoleon, who has become Napoleon III in the meantime, this famous sentence: "Napoleon le Petit by Victor le Grand".
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