fme_789650 - GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI Médaille, Exposition international, Arts et Industrie
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Type : Médaille, Exposition international, Arts et Industrie
Date: 1911
Mint name / Town : Angleterre, Londres
Metal : gilt bronze
Diameter : 59 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 87,77 g.
Edge : lisse + triangle BRONZE
Puncheon : Triangle BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Médaille dorée présentant de l’usure sur les reliefs. Présence de quelques coups et rayures, notamment sur la tranche
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Allégorie féminine émergeant de l’eau, des puttis jouant autour. Paysage et soleil levant à l’arrière plan.
Reverse
Reverse legend : INTERNATIONAL - EXHIBITION // LONDON / 1911 // ARTS - INDUSTRY.
Reverse description : Allégorie féminine drapée à l’antique, tenant un flambeau d’une main et des couronnes de laurier de l’autre. Vue sur divers monuments dont le crystal palace, et divers objets (globe, vase, coupe, palette de peinture, enclume, ancre, ruche, caducée, botte de blé, etc.) Blason de la famille royale anglaise à l’exergue.
Historical background
GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI
(11/12/1936-6/02/1952)
Georges VI (14/12/1895-6/02/1952) is the youngest son of Georges V and Mary de Treck. He is the brother of Edward VIII who succeeded Georges V on January 20, 1936, but who was forced to abdicate the same year because he decided to marry Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson, twice divorced, and because his Germanophilia displeases strongly to power circles in England. George VI has two daughters, Elisabeth and Margaret. During the Second World War, he was the symbol of English resistance to Nazism. After the war, in 1947 he had to ratify the independence of the Indian Empire which, after a horrible civil war, was divided to form India and Pakistan. He died of cancer in 1952.
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