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Live auction - fwo_416718 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD I 5 Francs tête laurée 1832 Bruxelles

BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD I 5 Francs tête laurée 1832 Bruxelles VF
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Estimate : 500 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 31 January 2017 16:42:37
Type : 5 Francs tête laurée
Date: 1832
Mint name / Town : Bruxelles
Quantity minted : 37000
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 37 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 24,73 g.
Edge : en creux
Rarity : R2
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : LEOPOLD PREMIER ROI DES BELGES.
Obverse description : tête à gauche laurée de Léopold Ier.

Reverse


Reverse description : valeur faciale “5 Francs” et date au centre d’une couronne de feuilles de chêne.

Commentary


Variété tranche B.

Historical background


BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD I

(4/06/1831-10/12/1865)

Leopold (16/12/1790-10/12/1865) is the son of François de Saxe-Cobourg and the uncle of Victoria I. He fights Napoleon in the Russian army. Naturalized English in 1816, he married Charlotte of Hanover and found himself a widower the following year. Léopold had just refused the crown of Greece when he was elected King of the Belgians on June 4, 1831. The following year, he married Louise d'Orléans (1812-1850), the daughter of Louis-Philippe. She gives him three children including Leopold II and Charlotte, the unfortunate wife of Maximilian of Austria, shot in Mexico. He is morganatically married to the actress Caroline Bauer from whom he must separate to marry the daughter of the King of the French. The London Conference of July 1831 settled territorial problems and the treaty of eighteen articles was accepted by the National Congress on July 9, 1831. Leopold was triumphantly welcomed on July 21, 1831. He had to fight against the Dutch army and received the nickname of "shield of Belgium", safeguarding the independence of the "flat country" against the Prussia of William I and the France of Napoleon III. He relies politically on England.

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