Live auction - fme_982094 - V REPUBLIC Médaille, Martin Luther King
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| Starting price : | 40 € |
| Estimate : | 80 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 25 August 2026 20:17:22 |
Type : Médaille, Martin Luther King
Date: 1969
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 67 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver COURBIER Marcel (1898-1976)
Weight : 181,65 g.
Edge : lisse + 1969 + corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène marron avec des taches d’oxydation sur la tranche, faible usure
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : MARTIN LUTHER KING.
Obverse description : Effigie du pasteur, apôtre de l’intégration des noirs par la non-violence. Signé : COURBIER.
Reverse
Reverse legend : PRIX NOBEL DE LA PAIX.
Reverse description : Sa main levée en invocation de la paix.
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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