fme_914086 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD II Médaille, Jubilé de la Basilique Notre-Dame de Hanswijk
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Type : Médaille, Jubilé de la Basilique Notre-Dame de Hanswijk
Date: 1888
Mint name / Town : Belgique, Mechelen
Metal : silver plated metal
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,92 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Médaille nettoyée présentant des taches d’oxydation. Présence de coups et rayures. Usure régulière
Obverse
Obverse legend : JUBILE VAN O. L. V. VAN HANSWYCK TE MECHELEN - 988-1888.
Obverse description : Vue sur une église.
Reverse
Reverse legend : . MIRAKULEUS BEELD VAN O. L. V. VAN HANSWYCK // MONSTRA TE ESSE MATREM.
Reverse description : Vierge à l’enfant miraculeuse sous un dais et un soleil. Signé : J. ASELEER.
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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