Medal - Club Aérostatique Belfort

Medal - Club Aérostatique Belfort - obverseMedal - Club Aérostatique Belfort - reverse

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Features

Location France
Type Commemorative medals › Society medal
Year 1989
Composition Brass
Weight 41 g
Diameter 50.36 mm
Thickness 2.95 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
175226

Commemorative issue

200 years of the Club Aérostatique de BelfortAutomatically translated

Obverse

The Lion of BelfortAutomatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
Club Aérostatique de Franche Comté
Belfort
1789-1989

Reverse

The castle of Villersexel flown over by 3 hot air balloonsAutomatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
Trans World Ballon Cup Challenge France
Villersexel
1789-1989

Edge

Smooth

Comments

The Lion of Belfort is a monumental high-relief sculpture by Alsatian sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, located in Belfort, France, at the foot of the citadel cliff. It depicts a reclining lion, its paw resting on an arrow it has just stopped. It looks ready to rise, and rests on a rockwork pedestal. This commemorates the town's resistance to the Prussian siege during the 1870 war, at the end of which the area corresponding to today's Territoire de Belfort was the only part of Alsace to remain French.

Villersexel is a French commune in the Haute-Saône department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.Automatically translated

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1989 

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