Live auction - fme_1146280 - IV REPUBLIC Médaille de visite à la Monnaie de Paris
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Live starting : Type : Médaille de visite à la Monnaie de Paris
Date: 1955
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Quantity minted : ---
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,43 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : Corne 1 (1880 -)
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Présence de coups et rayures, notamment dans les champs du revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : REPUBLIQUE - FRANÇAISE.
Obverse description : Tête féminine de profil à gauche, coiffée d’un bonnet orné d’une branche de laurier.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LE 5 MAI 1955 // LE PRESIDENT COTY / VISITE / L’AD.ON DES MONNAIES.
Reverse description : Balancier monétaire. Poinçon 1 corne d’abondance. Signé : BRENET F. // DENON D..
Commentary
D’après Mazard, quelques rarissimes exemplaires en argent auraient également été frappés. Cet auteur donne un indice de rareté R5. Cette médaille fut frappée pour célébrer la visite du président René Coty (1954-1958) à la Monnaie de Paris.
According to Mazard, some extremely rare silver examples were also struck. This author gives a rarity index of R5. This medal was struck to celebrate the visit of President René Coty (1954-1958) to the Paris Mint
According to Mazard, some extremely rare silver examples were also struck. This author gives a rarity index of R5. This medal was struck to celebrate the visit of President René Coty (1954-1958) to the Paris Mint
Historical background
IV REPUBLIC
(16/01/1947-8/01/1959)
Characterized by a parliamentary regime coupled with great ministerial instability, the Fourth Republic has the particularity of never having been officially proclaimed. Indeed, De Gaulle, when he arrived in Paris on August 25, 1944, refused to do so on the pretext that the Republic had never ceased to exist. Considering that the French State of Marshal Pétain was only a simple state of affairs, he considers that the Republic survived in free France and his birth certificate must then be June 18, 1940. However, his departure, the January 20, 1946, and the referendum of October 13, 1946 approving a new Constitution, mark the official beginning of this republic. It knows two presidents: Vincent Auriol (16/01/1947 - 23/12/1953) and René Coty (23/12/1953 - 8/1/1959). The open crisis caused by the revolt of the army of Algeria leads, in 1958, to its fall which is confirmed by the adoption of a new constitution on September 28, 1958. Nevertheless, it does not cease definitively until the 8 January 1959 when General de Gaulle was installed as President of the Fifth Republic.
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