Live auction - fme_1160659 - GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI Médaille, Jeux olympiques d'été de 1948
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Jeux olympiques d'été de 1948
Date: 1948
Mint name / Town : Grande-Bretagne, Londres
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 50,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver PINCHES J R
Weight : 65,19 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des taches d’oxydation. Quelques marques d’usure et rayures
Catalogue references :
Eimer.2076 - BHM4422
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Sportif avec sa palme sur un quadrige. Signé : BM.
Reverse
Reverse legend : XIV. OLYMPIAD / LONDON / 1948.
Reverse description : Légende en 3 lignes sous une vue de Londres avec Big Ben. Anneaux olympiques à l’exergue.
Commentary
Médaille conservée dans un écrin marron avec intérieur bordeaux.
Medal kept in a brown case with a burgundy interior
Medal kept in a brown case with a burgundy interior
Historical background
GREAT-BRITAIN - GEORGE VI
(11/12/1936-6/02/1952)
Georges VI (14/12/1895-6/02/1952) is the youngest son of Georges V and Mary de Treck. He is the brother of Edward VIII who succeeded Georges V on January 20, 1936, but who was forced to abdicate the same year because he decided to marry Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson, twice divorced, and because his Germanophilia displeases strongly to power circles in England. George VI has two daughters, Elisabeth and Margaret. During the Second World War, he was the symbol of English resistance to Nazism. After the war, in 1947 he had to ratify the independence of the Indian Empire which, after a horrible civil war, was divided to form India and Pakistan. He died of cancer in 1952.
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