Live auction - fme_1043694 - AUSTRIA - FRANZ-JOSEPH I Médaille du Mérite, Exposition universelle de Vienne
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Live starting : Type : Médaille du Mérite, Exposition universelle de Vienne
Date: 1873
Mint name / Town : Autriche, Vienne
Metal : tin
Diameter : 52,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver CHRISTESEN Vilhelm (1822-1899)
Weight : 49,98 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Médaille nettoyée. Patine grise hétérogène avec la présence de traces d’oxydation et de plusieurs rayures sur l’ensemble de la médaille
Catalogue references :
Hauser 2923 - Augustin 184
Obverse
Obverse legend : DEM VERDIENSTE - SEINE KRONE !.
Obverse description : Athéna assise à gauche, la Victoire sur sa main droite tendue, la gauche posée sur un bouclier, un hibou à ses pieds. Signée : TH. HANSEN INV. - F. SCHMAHEFELD / V. CHRISTESEN. .
Obverse translation : Au mérite - SA COURONNE !.
Reverse
Reverse legend : FJI / VIRTUS UNITIS // À L’EXERGUE : WELTAUSSTELLUNG, / 1873 WIEN .
Reverse description : Vue de la Rotonde, au-dessus les armoiries couronnées avec le monogramme FJI, tenues par deux griffons. Signé : F.S.
Reverse translation : EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE / 1873 VIENNE.
Historical background
AUSTRIA - FRANZ-JOSEPH I
(2/12/1848-21/11/1916)
François-Joseph I (18/081830-21/11/1916) is the son of Archduke François Charles and Sophie of Bavaria. He succeeded his uncle Ferdinand I of Austria in 1848 in the midst of the European revolution. His throne wavers in Hungary, Bohemia, Milan and Venice. It is with authority that he restores order and will reign over "Mitteleuropa" for 68 years. In 1854 he married Elisabeth of Bavaria (1837-1898), better known as Sissi. Their only son Rodolphe (1858-1890) committed suicide with his mistress in 1890 in Mayerling. Empress Sissi was assassinated in Geneva in 1898. Her nephew François-Ferdinand was assassinated with his wife in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, triggering the First World War. The old emperor died in 1916 before the carving up of his empire two years later.
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