Live auction - fme_695328 - FRENCH GUINEA Médaille, Concours agricole, Mission des soeurs

FRENCH GUINEA Médaille, Concours agricole, Mission des soeurs AU

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Estimate :	4 000 €
Price :	no bid
Maximum bid :	no bid
End of the sale :	07 December 2021 20:21:03

Type : Médaille, Concours agricole, Mission des soeurs

Date: 1900

Metal : gold

Diameter : 27,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 13,26 g.

Edge : lisse + corne OR

Puncheon : corne OR

Coments on the condition:

Bel exemplaire présentant de légères marques d’usure sur certains hauts reliefs. Présence de quelques coups et rayures

Obverse

Obverse legend : REPVBLIQVE FRANÇAISE.

Obverse description : Marianne à gauche, coiffée d’un bonnet phrygien, avec une couronne de lauriers. Signé : O. ROTY.

Reverse

Reverse legend : GUINÉE FRANÇAISE - .CONCOURS AGRICOLE DU 31 DÉCEMBRE 1900. // MISSION / DES SOEURS.

Reverse description : Légende circulaire et en 2 lignes dans un médaillon entouré d’une couronne de laurier.

Historical background

FRENCH GUINEA

(1891-1958)

French Guinea was a colony and then a French overseas territory in West Africa which became independent in 1958 as the Republic of Guinea. The decree of December 17, 1891 transformed the colony of "southern rivers" into "French Guinea". The decree of March 10, 1893 dismembers it into three colonies: French Guinea, Ivory Coast and Benin. It will be necessary to wait until 1899 so that its borders are fixed. It was part of French West Africa (AOF) from 1904. French Guinea became an overseas territory (TOM) from the French Constitution of October 27, 1946.