fme_944397 - V REPUBLIC Plaquette, locomotive Best Friend of Charleston
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Price : 55.00 €
Type : Plaquette, locomotive Best Friend of Charleston
Date: 1976
Metal : silver
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 50,98 g.
Edge : lisse + ARGENT 1ER TITRE + C + losange + 76 + P + crabe + LE MEDAILLIER + 8
Puncheon : Crabe
Coments on the condition:
Patine brillante, traces d’oxydation marrons à l’avers dans les coins. Au revers, une tache verticale due au bandeau de préhension de son précédent conditionnement (plateau). Quelques frottements et empreintes de doigts
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Vue d’une locomotive à vapeur sur des rails .
Reverse
Reverse legend : BEST FRIEND OF CHARLESTON-1830 // SUR LE PARCOURS LE PLUS LONG DU MONDE, ELLE / PROUVA QUE LES LOCOMOTIVES A VAPEUR / POUVAIENT ASSURER UN SERVICE VOYAGEURS / REGULIER..
Reverse description : Inscription dans un cartouche suivi par quatre lignes.
Commentary
Dimensions : 28*56,50
Médaille issue de la collection, numérotée 8.
La locomotive à vapeur “Best Friend of Charleston”, première locomotive reconnue comme ayant été fabriquée intégralement aux Etats-Unis pour le service commercial, a été utilisée en service régulier de transport de passagers sur un itinéraire de démonstration de six milles (9,7 km) à Charleston (Caroline du Sud). En 1831, la chaudière de la locomotive subit une explosion.
Dimensions: 28*56.50 Medal from the collection, numbered 8. The steam locomotive “Best Friend of Charleston,” the first locomotive recognized as having been manufactured entirely in the United States for commercial service, was used in regular passenger service on a six-mile (9.7 km) demonstration route in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1831, the locomotive’s boiler suffered an explosion
Médaille issue de la collection, numérotée 8.
La locomotive à vapeur “Best Friend of Charleston”, première locomotive reconnue comme ayant été fabriquée intégralement aux Etats-Unis pour le service commercial, a été utilisée en service régulier de transport de passagers sur un itinéraire de démonstration de six milles (9,7 km) à Charleston (Caroline du Sud). En 1831, la chaudière de la locomotive subit une explosion.
Dimensions: 28*56.50 Medal from the collection, numbered 8. The steam locomotive “Best Friend of Charleston,” the first locomotive recognized as having been manufactured entirely in the United States for commercial service, was used in regular passenger service on a six-mile (9.7 km) demonstration route in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1831, the locomotive’s boiler suffered an explosion
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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