Description

Italy Medal Esposizione Internazionale 1906 Milano

(4077L)
OBVERSE
Obverse legend : ESPOSIZIONE INTERNAZIONALE// MILANO 1906.
Reverse legend : INAUGURAZIONE DEL SEMPIONE.
COMMENTARY
Expo 1906 or Simplon International Exhibition was a Universal Exhibition held in Milan from April 28 to November 11, 1906.
The chosen site was located behind the Sforza castle (the current Parco Sempione, where, in 1923, the Fiera Milano City was installed).
The theme chosen was transport. For the occasion, the 13 million lire invested at the time enabled the construction of many new buildings, including the municipal aquarium. The Exhibition received 35,000 exhibitors from 40 countries and welcomed more than 5 million visitors.
The Expo’s iconic poster, designed by Leopoldo Metlicovitz, celebrated the completion of the transalpine breakthrough of the Simplon tunnel (Sempione in Italian, from which the park takes its name), making possible the first direct rail link between Milan and Paris…
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
ITALY – KINGDOM OF ITALY – VICTOR EMMANUEL III
(29/07/1900-9/05/1946)
Victor Emmanuel III, born November 11, 1869, the son of Umberto I and Margherita of Savoy, son and grandson of Victor Emmanuel II. He married Helen of Montenegro, daughter of Nicolas I in 1896. After the assassination of his father by an anarchist in 1900, he ascended the throne. This king is known to have favored numismatists from 1910 publication of Corpus Nummorum Italicorum (CNI), bible collectors Italian currencies. During the First World War, Italy sides with the Allies in 1915, but suffered many defeats before stabilizing the front at Caporetto against the Austrians. Constitutional king, he is a hostage or accomplice fascists in 1922. Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) is the real head of the executive, the Duce. Agreements Lateran in 1929 put an end to sixty years of conflict with the Papacy. Emperor of Ethiopia after the invasion of this country by Italian troops in 1936 and King of Albania in 1939, he left out in the Second World War. After the Allied landings in Sicily and southern Italy, in a burst of energy, but it reverses Mussolini was forced into exile. He abdicated in favor of his son Umberto II in 1946 and died in Alexandria December 28, 1947.