fme_1033134 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD II Médaille, Orient de Bruxelles, Les vrais amis de l’Union et du Progrès réunis
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Type : Médaille, Orient de Bruxelles, Les vrais amis de l’Union et du Progrès réunis
Date: 1879
Mint name / Town : Belgique, Bruxelles
Metal : silver plated bronze
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,46 g.
Edge : Lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec de l’usure sur les reliefs. Taches d’oxydation
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : R :. (RECTANGLE REPRÉSENTANT LE PLAN SIMPLIFIÉ D’UNE LOGE) :. DES VRAIS AMIS DE L‘UNION & DU PROGRES REUNIS * / OR :. DE BRUXELLES * .
Obverse description : Pélican nourrissant ses petits .
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOUVENIR / DE LA / TENUE SOLENNELLE / D’ADOPTION - - - / 24 MAI 1879 .
Reverse description : En cinq lignes.
Commentary
Souvenir de la Tenue Solennelle d’Adoption, 1879.
Référence Worcestershire 51 - H 274. .
Souvenir of the Solemn Adoption Dress, 1879. Reference Worcestershire 51 - H 274.
Référence Worcestershire 51 - H 274. .
Souvenir of the Solemn Adoption Dress, 1879. Reference Worcestershire 51 - H 274.
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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