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Medal - Wedding of Princess Charlotte

1857 year
- - 27 mm
Description
Location
Belgium
King
Leopold I (1831-1865)
Type
Personality medals › Wedding medals
Year
1857
Diameter
27 mm
Shape
Round with a loop
Technique
Milled
Orientation
Medal alignment ↑↑
Updated
2024-11-12
References
Numista
N#224761
Rarity index
97%

Reverse

Text of which a part in a crown of roses.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
* * BELBIQUE **
AUTRICHE
Dans la couronne de roses :
FÊTES
A
BRUXELLES
JUILLET
1857
*

Edge

Plain

Comment

Issued on the occasion of Princess Charlotte of Belgium, daughter of Leopold I and Ferdinand Maximilian of Habsburg, Archduke of Austria, who would become Emperor and Empress of Mexico a few years later. Maximilian was shot in Mexico in 1867 and Charlotte died in 1927 in Belgium at the castle of Bouchout.