World Historical Medals
Lot 3685 Session 12 (11.30 Thu 27th March) World Historical Medals
Estimate $80
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SOLD $100
ETHIOPIA, silver plated bronze medal 42mm, issued EE1949 (1957), plain edge, loop removed from edge, obv. crowned profiled bust of Haile Selassie, rev, imperial monogram as a trilobe, Biblical text around (Psalm 68, 32), (Gill S38 [p.172]). Very fine.
The medal commemorates that to the day 16 years earlier Haile Selassie re-entered Addis Ababa following the defeat of the Italians.
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