fme_1021565 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD II Médaille, Exposition Universelle d’Anvers
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Type : Médaille, Exposition Universelle d’Anvers
Date: 1885
Mint name / Town : Belgique, Anvers
Metal : copper
Diameter : 60 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver WEINER Charles (1832-1888)
Weight : 108,30 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des traces de manipulation et taches d’oxydation. Coups et rayures sur la tranche
Obverse
Obverse legend : LEOPOLD II - ROI DES BELGES.
Obverse description : Tête à droite de Léopold II. Signé : CHARLES WIENNER.
Reverse
Reverse legend : EXPOSITION. UNIVERSELLE. ANVERS. 1885.
Reverse description : Allégorie féminine drapée en bas, assise sur un globe, tenant dans sa main gauche une trompette et montrant la ville à un angelot, qui tient lui-même une couronne de laurier et une branche dans ses mains. Signé : CHARLES WIENNER.
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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