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fme_469821 - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Médaille, Bataille de Cowpens, refrappe

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Médaille, Bataille de Cowpens, refrappe AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 80.00 €
Type : Médaille, Bataille de Cowpens, refrappe
Date: (1781)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 45,96 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 45,85 g.
Edge : lisse + corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène. Petites taches noires

Obverse


Obverse legend : GULIELMO WASHINGTON LEGIONIS EQUIT. PRÆFECTO // COMITIA AMERICAN.
Obverse description : Le colonel Washington à cheval, chargeant, son armée derrière lui, une Victoire ailé au dessus de lui tenant des palmes et une couronne de laurier. Signé : DUV.

Reverse


Reverse legend : QUOD / PARVA MILITUM MANU / STRENUE PROSECUTUS HOSTES / VIRTUTIS INGENITÆ / PRÆCLARUM SPECIMEN DEDIT / IN PUGNA AD COWPENS / XVII. JAN. MDCCLXXXI..
Reverse description : Légende de 7 lignes dans une couronne de laurier.

Historical background


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

(since 1776)

Under McKinley's presidency (1897-1901), the United States confronted Spain and took Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines from it. Theodore Roosevelt succeeded the assassinated president (1901/1909) and undertook an interventionist policy in America and posed as a mediator in regional conflicts. To Taft succeeded in 1913 Wilson who was to bring the United States into the war in 1917.

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