fme_702276 - EGYPT - OTTOMAN SULTANS OF EGYPT - ABBAS II HILMI BEY Médaille, Pose de la première pierre du Musée du Caire
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Price : 600.00 €
Type : Médaille, Pose de la première pierre du Musée du Caire
Date: 1897
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 70 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 138,6 g.
Edge : lisse + losange + BRONZE
Puncheon : BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire nettoyé et présentant des coups sur la tranche. Présence de rayures, notamment sur le portrait suite au nettoyage
Obverse
Obverse legend : (LÉGENDE EN ARABE) - ABBAS HILMI. II..
Obverse description : Buste habillé, décoré, de profil à gauche. Signé : S. E. / VERNIER / 1896.
Reverse
Reverse legend : (LÉGENDE EN ARABE) / LE 1ER AVRIL 1897 / ABBAS HILMI. II. / ETANT KHEDIVE D’EGYPTE / MUSTAPHA FEHMY OACGA / PRESIDENT DU CONSEIL DES MINISTRES / HUSSEIN FAKHRY PACHA / MINISTRE DES TRAVAUX PUBLICS & DE L’INSTRUCTION PUBLIQUE / J. DE MORGAN / DIRECTEUR GENERAL DES ANTIQUITES EGYPTIENNES / MARCEL DOURGNON / ARCHITECTE / A ETE POSEE LA PREMIERE PIERRE DU / MUSEE DES ANTIQUITES / EGYPTIENNES / AU CAIRE.
Reverse description : Légende en 26 lignes sous un écusson couronné encadré par deux palmes.
Historical background
EGYPT - OTTOMAN SULTANS OF EGYPT - ABBAS II HILMI BEY
(1874-1944)
Khedive of Egypt
Seventh sovereign of the dynasty of Muhammad Ali, son of Tawfiq Pasha, he took the place of his father Ismā'ïl during the crisis of 1879, he received a Western education and became khedive in 1892. . He tried to break away from English influence by making himself popular through tax rebates and by getting closer to France, but the intervention of Lord Kromer and Kitchener led him, from 1895, to take Mustafā Fahmi as minister. pasha, support of England. From then on he made frequent trips to Europe. After Turkey entered the war, he called on the Egyptians to fight against the British occupiers. Great Britain then places Egypt under its protectorate. In 1914, at the start of the First World War, he was deposed by the British authorities for having supported the nationalist movement. Hussein Kamal succeeded him after the restoration of the Sultanate of Egypt under British protectorate. Source: Wikipedia.
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