fme_637910 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD II Médaille, Exposition internationale
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Price : 100.00 €
Type : Médaille, Exposition internationale
Date: 1907
Metal : gilt bronze
Diameter : 50,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 64,74 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Traces de manipulation dans les champs
Obverse
Obverse legend : * LEOPOLD II - ROI DES BELGES *.
Obverse description : Portrait du roi à gauche, signé : FISCH C.IE.
Reverse
Reverse legend : VILLE DE SPA - EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE / 1907.
Reverse description : Blason tourelé d’où part un ruban timbré de la légende et une branche d’olivier.
Commentary
Exemplaire conservé dans une boîte cartonné bordeaux décoré d’un liseré doré.
Historical background
BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD II
(10/12/1865-17/12/1909)
Leopold II (9/04/1835-17/12/1909) is the eldest son of Leopold I and Louise d'Orléans. He married Marie-Henriette, Archduchess of Austria, who bore him three daughters: Louise, Stéphanie, and Clémentine. He relied on England to repel the aims of Napoleon III in 1866-1869. His reign was marked by the economic and industrial development of Belgium, which also became a great colonial power thanks to the personal annexation of the Congo by the king at the Congress of Berlin in 1885. Without a male heir, his nephew Albert I succeeded him. in 1909. He bequeathed the Congo to Belgium in 1908.
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