Romania Kingdom Medal 1922 Coronation Ferdinand & Marie w/Ribbon & Gilt Crown for Sale

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Romania Kingdom Medal 1922 Coronation Ferdinand & Marie w/Ribbon & Gilt Crown For Sale

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Romania Kingdom Medal 1922 Coronation Ferdinand & Marie w/Ribbon & Gilt Crown:
$125.00

Circular bronze medal with barsuspension, the bar inscribed ‘BUCURESTI – ALBA JULIA’. Obverse shows head andshoulder portraits of King Ferdinand and Queen; circumscribed ‘FERDINAND REGELEROMÂNIEI SI MARIA REGINA’ (Ferdinand King of Romania and Queen Marie). Reverse hasKing Ferdinand on horseback at the head of a mounted escort, a female figurerepresentative of Romania in the foreground, the cathedral of Alba Julia in thebackground, circumscribed ‘INTÂIUL REGE AL TUTUROR ROMÂNILOR ÎNCORONATU-S'A LAALBA-JULIA IN 15 X 1922’ (The First King of Greater Romania Crowned at AlbaJulia, 15 October 1922). Also has name ‘C KRISTESCU’ (for the sculptor andmedalist Constantin Kristescu).

Although Ferdinand I became king of Romania on10 October 1914 on the death of Carol I, the outbreak of World War I delayedhis coronation and he was crowned in 1922 both in Bucharest and at Alba Juliain Transylvania. This was symbolic, in that Transylvania had been given toRomania under the terms of the treaties that ended the War and Ferdinand, whoreigned until his death in 1927, was the first Romanian sovereign of moderntimes to reign over all three Romanian provinces.