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medals
Composition
Copper-nickel
Weight
9.25 g
Diameter
30.1 mm
Thickness
1.7 mm
Shape
Round
Technique
Milled
Orientation
Medal alignment ↑↑
Edge
Plain
Period
Notice
Alphonse Michaux
Reference(s)
Obverse description
A standing woman representing Belgium, in right profile, hands a branch of boxwood to a seated miner facing her, who is holding an ice axe in his left hand. In the background, an industrial landscape.
Obverse lettering
EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE
LIÈGE 1905
A.MICHAUX
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
The same woman, standing in profile on the left, holding a laurel branch in her left hand and a flag in her right, is accompanied by a lion and looks at the portraits of Kings Leopold I and Leopold II facing her in a medallion.
