fme_1025605 - V REPUBLIC Médaille, Château de Pau, Henri IV
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Type : Médaille, Château de Pau, Henri IV
Date: 1972
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 67,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver BÉNARD Raoul René Alphonse (1881-1961)
Weight : 157,52 g.
Edge : lisse + 1972 + corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec de l’usure sur les reliefs
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : À L’EXERGUE : HENRI IV.
Obverse description : Statue, en pied, d'Henri IV. A l'arrière plan, le château de Pau. Signé : RAOVL BENARD.
Reverse
Reverse legend : CHATEAU // PHEBUS MEFE // DE / PAU.
Reverse description : Détail décoratif du donjon. Armes de Foix et du Béarn, encadrées de quatre masques. Inscription gothique dans l’encadré central, c'est-à-dire : Phcebus me fit (Gaston III, comte de Foix, surnommé Phébus, fit en effet reconstruire le vieux château entre 1373 et 1389).
Historical background
V REPUBLIC
(since 08/01/1959)
The Fifth Republic, whose constitution was approved by referendum on September 28, 1958 by more than 79% of French people, only officially began with the installation of General de Gaulle as president on January 8, 1959. The constitution was amended on January 28, 1958. October 1962 by referendum where a majority of 62% of votes approves the election of the President of the Republic by direct universal suffrage. The various presidents of the Fifth Republic are Charles de Gaulle (8/01/1959 - 27/04/1969, retirement and Alain Poher becomes interim president), Georges Pompidou (15/06/1969 - 2/04/1974, deceased , Alain Poher becomes interim president), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (19/05/1974 - 21/05/1981), François Mitterrand (21/05/1981 - 7/05/1995), Jacques Chirac (7/05 /1995 - 05/16/2007), Nicolas Sarkozy (05/16/2007 - 05/15/2012), François Hollande (05/15/2012 - 05/14/2017) and Emmanuel Macron (05/14/2017 - ).
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