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Live auction - fme_671942 - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Médaille, Christophe Colomb, Exposition

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Médaille, Christophe Colomb, Exposition XF
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Estimate : 80 €
Price : 40 €
Maximum bid : 40 €
End of the sale : 03 August 2021 20:57:50
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Médaille, Christophe Colomb, Exposition
Date: 1893
Mint name / Town : USA, Chicago
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,22 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène. Traces d’un léger nettoyage. Présence de quelques coups et rayures

Obverse


Obverse legend : 1492 - 1892 // COLUMBUS.
Obverse description : Buste habillé de face.

Reverse


Reverse legend : WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION // À L’EXERGUE : CHICAGO / 1893.
Reverse description : Globe posé sur des nuages.

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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