Live auction - fme_994814 - SECOND REPUBLIC Médaille, Commémoration des Journées de février
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| Starting price : | 50 € |
| Estimate : | 100 € |
| Price : | 71 € |
| Maximum bid : | 71 € |
| End of the sale : | 13 May 2025 17:48:50 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Médaille, Commémoration des Journées de février
Date: 1848
Metal : copper
Diameter : 51 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver GAYRARD Raymond (1777-1858)
Weight : 66,39 g.
Edge : lisse + main CUIVRE
Puncheon : main indicatrice (1845-1860) et CUIVRE
Coments on the condition:
Traces d’oxydations et légères rayures
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE.
Obverse description : Tête de liberté à droite, laurée, coiffée d’une peau de lion nouée au cou. Signé : GAYRARD SCULPT.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ // 24 FÉVRIER / 1848.
Reverse description : Trois figures debout et groupées, caractérisées par un faisceau pour l’une, un balance pour l’autre et une peau de lion pour la dernière. Signé : GAYRARD SCULP..
Commentary
Médaille dans sa boite en bois (buis), intérieur en feutrine verte.
On remarquera que le buste de l’avers est une reprise agrandie du concours monétaire de 1848.
On remarquera que le buste de l’avers est une reprise agrandie du concours monétaire de 1848.
Historical background
SECOND REPUBLIC
(02/24/1848-12/2/1852)
Louis-Napoleon was elected on December 10, 1848 as the first President of the Second Republic. He did not have the right to run again in 1852. Louis-Napoleon decided to make a coup planned for December 2, 1851, the anniversary of the coronation of the Eagle and the commemoration of the Battle of Austerlitz. The coup is ratified by a plebiscite on December 21 with more than 7.5 million YES and only 640,000 NO. Victor Hugo went into exile on December 12. The following year, he will publish "Napoléon le Petit" which will earn Louis-Napoleon, who has become Napoleon III in the meantime, this famous sentence: "Napoleon le Petit by Victor le Grand".
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