fme_1010790 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - REIGN OF LEOPOLD III Plaque, Exposition Internationale et Universelle
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Type : Plaque, Exposition Internationale et Universelle
Date: 1935
Mint name / Town : Belgique, Bruxelles
Metal : gilt bronze
Diameter : 64,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver BONNETAIN Armand (1883-1973)
Weight : 185,73 g.
Edge : lisse + J. FONSON
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Médaille dorée, présentant des taches d’oxydation. Traces de frottement
Obverse
Obverse legend : INGENIVM / INTELLECTVS / ARS / INDVSTRIA // BRUSSEL / BRUXELLES // EXPOSITION. UNIVERS.LE / ET. INTERNATIONALE // 1935 // ALGEMEENE. WERELD / TENTOONSTELLING.
Obverse description : Génies tenant un lampe pour le premier, un livre ouvert pour le second, une sculpture pour le troisième et le dernier avec une roue crantée. Signé : BONNETAIN.
Reverse
Reverse legend : SCIENTIAE - LABORI - ARTIBVS .
Reverse description : Personnage féminin nu, une cape autour d’elle, tient dans ses mains une guirlande de fleurs, une couronne et une palme. Cartouche non gravé à l’exergue. Signé : BONNETAIN.
Commentary
Exemplaire non attribué, conservé dans une boîte cartonnée marron de chez J. Fonson.
Dimensions : 64,5*79 mm.
Unattributed example, preserved in a brown cardboard box from J. Fonson. Dimensions: 64.5*79 mm
Dimensions : 64,5*79 mm.
Unattributed example, preserved in a brown cardboard box from J. Fonson. Dimensions: 64.5*79 mm
Historical background
BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - REIGN OF LEOPOLD III
(17/12/1934-21/9/1944-16/7/1951)
Son of Albert I and grand-nephew of Leopold II, Leopold III became king following the accidental death of his father. In 1936, faced with threats of war, he put an end to the alliance with France and reaffirmed the neutrality of Belgium. In 1940, during the German invasion, he took command of the army but was quickly forced to sign an unconditional surrender. A prisoner of war, he refused any collaboration and ceased all political activity. Taken to Germany then liberated by the Allies, he retired to Switzerland while a regency was entrusted to his brother, Prince Charles (September 21, 1944). Much criticized, he regained the throne in 1950 after a referendum on the resumption of his powers. Welcomed by strikes and demonstrations, he then named Baudoin "royal prince" then abdicated in his favor in July 1951. He died in 1983.
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