fme_1011240 - V REPUBLIC Médaille, Mercure, refrappe
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Type : Médaille, Mercure, refrappe
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 51,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver MERLEY Louis (1815-1883)
Weight : 80,92 g.
Edge : lisse + double corne d’abondance
Puncheon : corne d’abondance double
Coments on the condition:
Quelques rayures au revers et traces d’oxydations
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Représentation de Mercure ailé tenant un caducée d’une main et une corne d’abondance de l’autre. Globe à l’exergue. Signé : L. MERLEY.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LISSE.
Reverse description : Double couronne de chêne et de laurier.
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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