E-auction 602-572427 - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Médaille, Souvenir du 150e anniversaire de l’inauguration
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Type : Médaille, Souvenir du 150e anniversaire de l’inauguration
Date: 1939
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,91 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Usure régulière. Présence de taches d’oxydation
Obverse
Obverse legend : IN 1939 / NEW YORK / WORLD’S FAIR.
Obverse description : Globe rayonnant à droite d’une grande tour.
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOUVENIR OF THE 150.TH ANNIVERSARY // À L’EXERGUE : GEORGE WASHINGTON / INAUGURATION.
Reverse description : Représentation d’un homme tendant des papiers à un second gravissant un estrade.
Historical background
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(since 1776)
Under McKinley's presidency (1897-1901), the United States confronted Spain and took Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines from it. Theodore Roosevelt succeeded the assassinated president (1901/1909) and undertook an interventionist policy in America and posed as a mediator in regional conflicts. To Taft succeeded in 1913 Wilson who was to bring the United States into the war in 1917.
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