fme_871554 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - ALBERT I Plaquette, Cardinal Desiré-Joseph Mercier
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Price : 70.00 €
Type : Plaquette, Cardinal Desiré-Joseph Mercier
Date: 1914
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 76,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver MAUQUOY Alphonse (1880-1954)
Weight : 120,11 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Médaille nettoyée, présentant des taches d’oxydation. Présence de coups et rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : 1916 // E.MUS AC R.MUS D.NUS CARD. MERCIER / ARCHIESPISCOPUS MECHLINIENSIS.
Obverse description : Buste habillé de profil à gauche, signé : ALPH. MAUQUOY.
Reverse
Reverse legend : INCONCUSSA / MOLE STAT / AUG. SEPT. 1914.
Reverse description : Représentation de la façade extérieure de la cathédrale Saint-Rombaut de Malines. Signé : ALF MAUQUOY.
Commentary
Dimensions : 76,5*54,5 mm.
Historical background
BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - ALBERT I
(17/12/1909-17/12/1934)
Albert I (8/04/1875-17/02/1934) succeeded his uncle Leopold II in 1909. He had married Elisabeth of Bavaria in 1900 (1876-1965). During the First World War, he commanded the Belgian army and shared the fate of the soldiers, which earned him the title of "knight king". The Treaty of Versailles in 1919 gave him the territories of Eupen and Malmédy. He died in a climbing accident in Marche-les-Dames. His son Leopold III succeeded him.
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