E-auction 505-417101 - fme_466501 - SECOND EMPIRE Médaillette de la famille impériale - souvenir de l’Exposition

SECOND EMPIRE Médaillette de la famille impériale - souvenir de l’Exposition AU

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Estimate :	30 €
Price :	12 €
Maximum bid :	13 €
End of the sale :	19 December 2022 19:29:30
bidders :	2 bidders

Type : Médaillette de la famille impériale - souvenir de l’Exposition

Date: 1867

Mint name / Town : France

Metal : brass

Diameter : 27,8 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 6,66 g.

Edge : lisse

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire en excellent état, nettoyé anciennement mais avec une agréable patine

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANEPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Trois médaillons avec la tête de Napoléon III, d’Eugénie et du prince impérial, entre un N couronnée et deux branches de laurier.

Reverse

Reverse legend : S.A. LE PRINCE IMPÉRIAL PRÉSIDENT // SOUVENIR/ DE/ MA VISITE / A L’EXPOSITION / UNIVERSELLE / DE / 1867.

Reverse description : Légende circulaire et en 6 lignes.

Commentary

Cette médaille n’est pas signée et n’est pas non plus attribuée. Ce type d’avers a été utilisé en diverses occasions en 1867 surtout pour la médaille de souvenir de l’Exposition mais aussi par exemple pour l’inauguration de la ligne de train Fougères / Vire.
Il existe deux types de droit, selon qu’il y ait ou non la légende circulaire autour des 3 médaillons..

Historical background

SECOND EMPIRE

(2/12/1852-4/09/1870)

Napoleon III laureate head

1860 marks the beginning of the liberal empire and, outside, a free trade agreement is signed with England, Cambodia becomes a French protectorate on April 11, 1863 and the Mexican campaign, which begins in 1863, goes last four years. The right to strike is granted on May 25, 1864. The republican and royalist opposition becomes more important. In the steel industry, the invention of the Martin furnace competed with Bessemer's process. France, by the convention of September 14, undertakes to evacuate Rome on condition that Italy respects the integrity of the pontifical territory. The French, defeated at Puebla in 1863, withdrew from the Mexican trap in 1866. Maximilian I of Austria, Emperor of Mexico, was executed on June 19, 1867. France supported Italian claims in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. The Austrians were crushed at Sadowa in 1866. Italy recovered Venetia in 1866. The French troops crush in Mentana the troops of Garibaldi who were going to invade the Papal State. The Universal Exhibition of 1867, with the visit of Alexander II of Russia, marks the peak of the Regime.