Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Token - Catastrophe au Charbonnage Framerie
| Location | Belgium |
|---|---|
| Year | 1879 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Period | 19th century |
| Notice | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The obverse features a central relief depicting a mine shaft headframe flanked by crossed mining tools — a shovel and a pickaxe — set atop mounds of coal or earth. A curved legend surrounds the upper field, and the date '17 AVRIL / 1879' appears in the lower portion of the field, commemorating the Agrappe colliery disaster in which 121 victims perished. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The reverse bears a fully inscribed field with no pictorial design, presenting a multi-line text legend in raised relief across the entire surface. The legend critically contrasts the large sums raised by the Catholic press for the Vatican with the comparatively meagre funds collected for the victims of the L'Agrappe disaster. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Comments | Log in to see details |