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fme_597689 - NETHERLANDS - KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS - WILLIAM III Médaille, Coster, père de la typographie

NETHERLANDS - KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS - WILLIAM III Médaille, Coster, père de la typographie AU
160.00 €(Approx. 171.20$ | 137.60£)
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Type : Médaille, Coster, père de la typographie
Date: 1856
Metal : copper
Diameter : 74,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 174,5 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Belle patine marron. La médaille présente des traces de manipulation et une petite usure sur les hauts reliefs

Obverse


Obverse legend : DE ORBE MERVIT - PATRIA POSVIT / TYPOGRAPHIAE PATER.
Obverse description : Laurent Coster debout, habillé, un bras en l’air, signé : S. G. ELION F..

Reverse


Reverse legend : DISPVLSIS NEBVLIS / FVLGET / ILLVSTRIOR. / INAVG. XVI IVL. MDCCCLVI..
Reverse description : Légende en 4 lignes sur des rayons perçant à travers des nuages.

Commentary


Laurent Coster, en néerlandais Laurens Janszoon Coster. Il était sacristain à Haarlem et se fit imprimeur.

Historical background


NETHERLANDS - KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS - WILLIAM III

(1849-1890)

Guillaume III (1817-1890) is the son of Guillaume II and Anne of Russia. He succeeded his father in 1849. In his first marriage, he married Sophie de Wurttemberg (1818-1877) in 1839, who had given him three sons, who died before their father. He married in 1879 Emma de Waldeck (1858-1934) who gave him Wilhelmine in 1880 who succeeded her father in 1890.

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