Live auction - fme_1003518 - SWITZERLAND - REPUBLIC OF GENEVA Médaille, Musée d’art et d’Histoire de Genève
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Musée d’art et d’Histoire de Genève
Date: 2010
Mint name / Town : Suisse, Genève
Metal : copper
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 18,81 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des traces de manipulation
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Représentation de la sculpture de Henry Moore, Reclining figure, Arch Leg.
Reverse
Reverse legend : MUSEE / D’ART ET / D’HISTOIRE / GENEVE / 1910-2010.
Reverse description : Représentation de la sculpture d’Antonio Canova, Vénus et Adonis.
Commentary
Médaille conservée sous capsule et dans une boîte bleue.
Historical background
SWITZERLAND - REPUBLIC OF GENEVA
Gegenna became Geneva on December 4, 1535. On November 24, 1535, the Council of Two Hundred decided to have coins minted in the name of the Republic of Geneva; the first sols de billon were minted in 1536. The Republic of Geneva was proclaimed on May 21, 1536 and the reformed religion became the state religion. Education becomes compulsory and free.
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