Medal - Charlotte Liberation of Luxembourg

Medal - Charlotte (Liberation of Luxembourg) - obverseMedal - Charlotte (Liberation of Luxembourg) - reverse

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Features

Location Luxembourg
Grand duchess Charlotte (1919-1964)
Type Commemorative medals › Event medal
Year 1944
Composition Bronze
Weight 9.18 g
Diameter 27.35 mm
Thickness 3.22 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
163368
References Weiller# 81,
Raymond Weiller; 1977. Les Monnaies Luxembourgeoises. Institut supérieur d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Harpes# 79
Jean Harpes; 1955. Médailles et jetons du pays de Luxembourg : étude historique et descriptive. Éditions du centre, Luxemburg.

Obverse

Portrait of the Grand Duchess on the left, signature of the engraver in the nape of the neck, surrounded by an inner graining and the circular legendAutomatically translated

Lettering: CHARLOTTE • GRANDE-DUCHESSE DE LUXEMBOURG ✣1944✣

Engraver: Charles Guilbert

Reverse

Luxembourg crowned shield with lion rampant left on a barred field of ten pieces, surrounded by an inner grenetis, the inner legend and the outer legend.Automatically translated

Lettering:
LE PEUPLE • LUXEMBOURGEOIS • RECONNAISSANT • A SES LIBÉRATEURS
MIR • WELLE • BLEIWEN • WAT • MIR • SIN ✣ LUXEMBOURG ✣

Edge

Smooth

Mint

Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date)

Comments

Medal realized by the artist Charles Guilbert, struck at the Paris mint and put on sale by the Barth jewelry store in Luxembourg city.
This medal also exists in a reduced version with a diameter of 18 mm.Automatically translated

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1944) 

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