Médaille - Jacques d'Artevelde

Features

Location Belgium
Type Commemorative medals › Personality or portrait medal
Years 1848-1850
Composition Bronze
Weight 44.4 g
Diameter 46.4 mm
Thickness 5.2 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
337695

Obverse

The right bust of the Flemish artist Jacob van Artevelde.
The signature on the field in relief at the base of the left bust.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
JACQUES D’ARTEVELDE NÉ VERS 1290.
JOUVENEL

Engraver: Adolphe Jouvenel

Reverse

One text, covering the entire field, sums up his political life.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ASSURER
LA PROSPÉRITÉ DE LA FLANDRE
EN PROCLAMANT SA NEUTRALITÉ, TEL FUT
LE SYSTÊME DE CE GRAND HOMME. IL L’EÛT
RÉALISÉ SANS LES INTRIGUES DU CE. LOUIS
DE NEVERS. 1338 APPELÉ AU GOUVERNEME[N]T DE LA
VILLE DE GAND. IL DEVINT BIENTÔT L’ARBITRE DE LA
FLANDRE ENTIÈRE, DONT IL RANIME LE COMMERCE
ET L’INDUSTRIE. IL ÉTABLIT LES TROIS MEMBRES DE
FLANDRE. TRAITÉ AVEC L’ANGLETERRE. LETTRES DE
PHILIPPE DE VALOIS EN FAVEUR DES FLAMANDS.
1339 TRAHISON DE PHILIPPE. JACQUES CONSEILLE A
EDOUARD III DE PRENDRE LE TITRE DE ROI DE FRANCE.
ALLIANCE AVEC LE BRABANT. 1340 AVEC LE HAINAUT.
GUERRE CONTRE LA FRANCE. 1342 LE CE. LOUIS
SÈME LA DISCORDE EN FLANDRE. 1344
ÉMEUTES. 1345 24 JUILLET
ASSASSINAT DE JACQUES
D’ARTEVELDE.

Engraver: Adolphe Jouvenel

Edge

Plain

Comments

From 1848 to 1850, Adolphe-Christian Jouvenel engraved and published in Brussels a collection of 25 bronze medals in ±47 mm modules, depicting portraits of "Belgium's great men". At the time, each medal was sold for 4 Belgian francs.
34 mm bronze or brass tokens reproducing some of these medals were also engraved, to make the publication accessible to all, according to the prospectus of the time, with a more democratic selling price of 50 centimes.Automatically translated

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1848-1850) 

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