fme_1034989 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD II Médaille, Comités de charité réunis
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Type : Médaille, Comités de charité réunis
Date: 1873
Mint name / Town : Belgique, Liège
Metal : gold plated silver
Diameter : 45,50 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 35,42 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des traces d’usure, coups et rayures, sur les deux faces et la tranche. Taches d’oxydation
Obverse
Obverse legend : COMITES DE CHARITE REUNIS - LIEGE // L - G.
Obverse description : Le Perron liégeois décoré de la Légion d'Honneur.
Reverse
Reverse legend : A / L’ASSOCIATION GENERALE / DES ETUDIANTS / - / TEMOIGNAGE / DE RECONNAISSANCE / 1873.
Reverse description : Légende 6 lignes.
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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