Live auction - fme_898632 - GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Médaille du Crystal Palace - Prince Albert, tirage uniface du revers

GREAT-BRITAIN - VICTORIA Médaille du Crystal Palace - Prince Albert, tirage uniface du revers AU

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Estimate :	60 €
Price :	43 €
Maximum bid :	61 €
End of the sale :	13 February 2024 18:29:20
bidders :	2 bidders

Type : Médaille du Crystal Palace - Prince Albert, tirage uniface du revers

Date: (1851)

Mint name / Town : UK, Londres

Metal : copper plated lead

Diameter : 50,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Engraver ALLEN & MOORE - Birmingham

Weight : 73,79 g.

Edge : lisse

Puncheon : sans poinçon

Coments on the condition:

Patine hétérogène, présentant des traces de manipulation et quelques taches d’oxydation

Obverse

Obverse legend : M.T / - / N.21..

Obverse description : Légende gravée en 2 lignes.

Reverse

Reverse legend : THE INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION / LONDON 1851 // PROPOSED BY H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT, / DESIGNED BY JOSEPH PAXTON ESQ. F. L. S., / ERECTED BY FOX, HENDERSON & CO., / LENGTH 1848 FEET, WIDTH 456 FEET, / HEIGHT OF PRINCIPAL ROOF 66 FEET, / HEIGHT OF TRANSEPT 108 FEET, / GLAZED SURFACE 900.000 SUP FEET, / OCCUPIES 18 ACRES / OF GROUND, / ESTIMATED VALUE L 150.000."..

Reverse description : Vue du crystal palace et légende en 10 lignes à l’exergue. Signé ALLEN & MOORE - BIRMM.

Commentary

Le prince Albert de Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha (Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel von Sachsen Coburg und Gotha), né le 26 août 1819 au château de Rosenau près de Cobourg et mort le 14 décembre 1861 au château de Windsor, est le mari de la reine Victoria. Il est créé prince consort par son épouse, en 1857..