Medal - Frère-Orban

Features

Location Belgium
King Leopold I (1831-1865)
Type Commemorative medals › Personality or portrait medal
Year 1851
Composition Bronze
Weight 54.6 g
Diameter 50.3 mm
Thickness 6 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
240514

Obverse

Bust in left profile of Hubert Joseph Walthère Frère.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
FRERE-ORBAN, MINISTRE DES FINANCES.
1851

Engraver: Adolphe Jouvenel

Reverse

Between a flower above and a star below, the text praising the advances of the character in Belgium.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering: ÉTABLISSEMENT / DE L'ÉQUILIBRE DANS LES FINANCES / DE L'ÉTAT. / LOI SUR LES TRAVAUX PUBLICS. / CRÉATION / DE LA BANQUE NATIONALE. / ORGANISATION / DU SERVICE DU CAISSIER DE L'ÉTAT. / INSTITUTION / DE LA CAISSE GÉNÉRALE / DE RETRAITE. / CRÉDIT FONCIER.

Engraver: Adolphe Jouvenel

Edge

Smooth

Comments

Hubert Joseph Walthère Frère, known as Frère-Orban, born in Liège on April 24, 1812 and died on January 2, 1896 in Brussels, was a Belgian liberal politician, Doctor of Law, who left his mark on the first half-century of Belgium's independence.Automatically translated

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