E-auction 610-588787 - GREECE - CONSTANTINE I Médaille, Constantin Ier et Basile II dit le Bulgaroctone
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Type : Médaille, Constantin Ier et Basile II dit le Bulgaroctone
Date: 1913
Metal : copper
Diameter : 36,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,37 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Traces de nettoyage. Présence de coups et rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : (LÉGENDE EN GREC) - 1913.
Obverse description : Tête de profil à gauche.
Obverse translation : Constantin roi des hellènes.
Reverse
Reverse legend : (LÉGENDE EN GREC) - 976-1025.
Reverse description : Buste couronné de profil à gauche de Basile II dit le Bulgaroctone.
Reverse translation : Basile B.
Commentary
Diamètre sans bélière : 30 mm.
Historical background
GREECE - CONSTANTINE I
(1913-1917 and 1920-1922)
Eldest son of Georges I, he succeeded him in 1913 following his assassination. A supporter of Greece's neutrality in the First World War, he opposed Prime Minister Elefthérios Venizélos, a supporter of the Triple Entente. In 1917, faced with the threat of the Allied forces to bomb Athens, King George I was finally dismissed in favor of his second son Alexander I. In November 1920, Alexander I died following the bite of a monkey. Faced with a serious dynastic crisis, the Greek parliament was forced to recall Georges I. Following the disaster of the Greco-Turkish war of 1919-1922, the loss of Smyrna and the massacres of the Greek populations in Asia Minor, the king was definitively discredited. The coup of September 11, 1922 put an end to his reign: he was forced to abdicate in favor of his eldest son George II..
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