E-auction 656-677016 - V REPUBLIC ECU Europa
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Type : ECU Europa
Date: 1979
Metal : copper-aluminium-nickel
Diameter : 41 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver RODIER Pierre (1939-)
Weight : 30,90 g.
Edge : cannelée
Puncheon : corne d’abondance
Coments on the condition:
Médaille sous sachet scellée
Obverse
Obverse legend : EUROPA.
Obverse description : Femme drapée à l’antique debout, le visage de profil. Signé : P. RODIER et corne d’abondance.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LES SYMBOLES DE NEUF PAYS MEMBRES DE LA C.E.E // ECU // 1979.
Reverse description : Les neuf symboles disposés en cercle, avec sous chacun d’eux l’abréviation du nom du pays. Au centre le mot ECU et l’année 1979 disposés en croix.
Commentary
Médaille conservée dans un étui bleu de la Monnaie de Paris et son certificat de garantie.
Medal preserved in a blue case from the Monnaie de Paris and its guarantee certificate
Medal preserved in a blue case from the Monnaie de Paris and its guarantee certificate
Historical background
V REPUBLIC
(since 08/01/1959)
The Fifth Republic, whose constitution was approved by referendum on September 28, 1958 by more than 79% of French people, only officially began with the installation of General de Gaulle as president on January 8, 1959. The constitution was amended on January 28, 1958. October 1962 by referendum where a majority of 62% of votes approves the election of the President of the Republic by direct universal suffrage. The various presidents of the Fifth Republic are Charles de Gaulle (8/01/1959 - 27/04/1969, retirement and Alain Poher becomes interim president), Georges Pompidou (15/06/1969 - 2/04/1974, deceased , Alain Poher becomes interim president), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (19/05/1974 - 21/05/1981), François Mitterrand (21/05/1981 - 7/05/1995), Jacques Chirac (7/05 /1995 - 05/16/2007), Nicolas Sarkozy (05/16/2007 - 05/15/2012), François Hollande (05/15/2012 - 05/14/2017) and Emmanuel Macron (05/14/2017 - ).
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