103414 | MEXICO. Maximiliano I white metal Medal.

103414  |  MEXICO. Maximiliano I white metal Medal. Issued 1867. Memorial to Maximiliano (41mm, 21.81 g, 12h). By August Kleeberg at the Vienna mint.

 

MAXIMILIAN I. IMPERATOR MEHICORUM, bare head right // * NATUS 6. JULII 1832 * / + 19. JUNII 1867, winged and draped female figure seated left, holding trumpet; behind, tomb with coat-of-arms and weeping tree in background. Edge: A few light marks, otherwise plain.

 

Grove 139b; Hauser 321; Wurzbach 6140; Forrer III, p. 173. Choice About Uncirculated. Some scattered marks and scuffs that can often plague white metal, but still quite pleasing and brilliant, and lacking any dullness or pestering that is often the case.

 

Maximiliano was of Austrian descent from the mighty Habsburg ruling family (he was a younger brother of Austro-Hungarian emperor Franz Joseph), and was installed as the Emperor of Mexico under the auspices of the French—the latter hoping to extend their influence in Mexico. The empire was short lived, however, as Maximiliano was dethroned a little after three years, being captured and executed by Republican forces.

 

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