Live auction - fme_901710 - GREECE - CONSTANTINE I Médaille, Guerre greco-turque
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| Estimate : | 40 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 14 May 2024 17:32:23 |
Type : Médaille, Guerre greco-turque
Date: 1913
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 92 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 15,36 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron hétérogène, présentant des taches d’oxydation. Présence de coups et rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : ΣΥΝ ΘΕΩΙ ΥΠΕΡ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΤΡΙΔΟΣ - 1912-1913.
Obverse description : Légende circulaire, croix à quatre branches avec des épées en sautoir timbré du monogramme du roi Georges Ier de Grèce et de celui de Constantin Ier de Grèce.
Obverse translation : Avec Dieu pour le Roi et le Pays.
Reverse
Reverse legend : (LÉGENDE EN GREC) .
Reverse description : Légende en 3 lignes dans un style byzantin, dans une couronne de laurier.
Reverse translation : Macedoine, Epire, and Archipelago.
Commentary
Diamètre sans bélière : 30 mm.
Ruban bleu avec des rayures blanches et une rayure centrale rouge (largeur : 31,5 mm).
Diameter without bail: 30 mm. Blue ribbon with white stripes and a central red stripe (width: 31.5 mm)
Ruban bleu avec des rayures blanches et une rayure centrale rouge (largeur : 31,5 mm).
Diameter without bail: 30 mm. Blue ribbon with white stripes and a central red stripe (width: 31.5 mm)
Historical background
GREECE - CONSTANTINE I
(1913-1917 and 1920-1922)
Eldest son of Georges I, he succeeded him in 1913 following his assassination. A supporter of Greece's neutrality in the First World War, he opposed Prime Minister Elefthérios Venizélos, a supporter of the Triple Entente. In 1917, faced with the threat of the Allied forces to bomb Athens, King George I was finally dismissed in favor of his second son Alexander I. In November 1920, Alexander I died following the bite of a monkey. Faced with a serious dynastic crisis, the Greek parliament was forced to recall Georges I. Following the disaster of the Greco-Turkish war of 1919-1922, the loss of Smyrna and the massacres of the Greek populations in Asia Minor, the king was definitively discredited. The coup of September 11, 1922 put an end to his reign: he was forced to abdicate in favor of his eldest son George II..
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