Live auction - fme_1106135 - AUSTRIA - FRANZ-JOSEPH I Médaille, Exposition Universelle, Au mérite
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Exposition Universelle, Au mérite
Date: 1873
Mint name / Town : Autriche, Vienne
Metal : copper
Diameter : 70 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver TAUTENHAYN Joseph (1837-1911) / SCHWENZER Karl (1843-1904)
Weight : 137,92 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron hétérogène avec des taches d’oxydation. Coups et rayures, notamment sur la tranche
Obverse
Obverse legend : FRANZ JOSEPH I, KAISER OESTERREICH KOENIG VON BOEHMEN ETC., APOST. KOENIG VON UNGARN. *.
Obverse description : Tête laurée à droite, signé : J. TAUTENHAYN.
Obverse translation : François Joseph I, Empereur d’Autriche, roi de Bohème etc, Roi de Hongrie.
Reverse
Reverse legend : WELTAUSSTELLUNG 1873 WIEN // À L’EXERGUE : DEM / VERDIENSTE.
Reverse description : Représentation de l’Autriche à gauche, face aux allégories de l’Industrie et de la Science. Signé : K. SCWENZER.
Reverse translation : Exposition Internationale 1873 Vienne // Au mérite.
Commentary
Médaille conservée dans un écrin vert (qui n’est pas d’origine).
Medal kept in a green case (which is not original)
Medal kept in a green case (which is not original)
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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