208. Medal "General Exhibition of Bessarabia", engraver C. Kristescu, 1925

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208. Medal "General Exhibition of Bessarabia", engraver C. Kristescu, 1925

Starting price:

EUR 50

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EUR 125

bronze, d=5 cm

Made in 1925 by the engraver Constantin Kristescu, on the occasion of the general exhibition in Chisinau, the medal displays on the obverse the side-by-side busts facing left of Ferdinand and Maria, the sovereigns of Greater Romania. The reverse depicts a personification of Romania with a national flag, next to its daughter, Bessarabia, in a chest hug, while in the second plane we can see the Dniester fortresses and the image of a soldier symbolizing the constant defence of the boundaries. Take Ionescu was the initiator of the first general exhibition, in Bucharest, who proposed and obtained a date of its organisation on the jubilee of 40 years of the reign of King Carol I, in 1906.

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