Live auction - fme_1030739 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD II Médaille, Pour la Paix, Société hollando-belge des amis de la médaille d’art
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| Estimate : | 150 € |
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| End of the sale : | 21 October 2025 17:27:45 |
Type : Médaille, Pour la Paix, Société hollando-belge des amis de la médaille d’art
Date: 1907
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 65 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver LE ROY Hippolyte (1857-1943)
Weight : 99,71 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron hétérogène avec des taches noires d’oxydation et quelques concrétions. Présence de quelques coups . Légère usure. Aspect collant de la tranche
Catalogue references :
Buchet/Toussaint14
Obverse
Obverse legend : À L’EXERGUE : PRO. PACE.
Obverse description : Homme assis, accoudé à son épée, regardant la scène de labour que lui pointe une allégorie féminine de la Paix ou de la République, drapée à l’antique et laurée, tenant une branche de laurier. Signé : HOPP. LE ROY / 1907.
Reverse
Reverse legend : SPES // À L’EXERGUE : SOCIETE HOLLANDO-BELGE / DES. AMIS. DE. LA. MEDAILLE / .D’ART..
Reverse description : Légende en 3 lignes sous une vue d’un navire pris en pleine tempête. Signé : HIPP. LE ROY.
Commentary
Cette médaille fait certainement écho à la Convention de la Haye de 1907. Elle fut frappé en 52 exemplaires en argent, et 227 exemplaires en bronze.
This medal certainly echoes the Hague Convention of 1907. It was struck in 52 examples in silver, and 227 examples in bronze.
This medal certainly echoes the Hague Convention of 1907. It was struck in 52 examples in silver, and 227 examples in bronze.
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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