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v37_0820 - LOUIS XVII Médaille pour la mort de Louis XVII

LOUIS XVII Médaille pour la mort de Louis XVII AU
MONNAIES 37 (2009)
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
Realised price : 200.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 425.00 €
Type : Médaille pour la mort de Louis XVII
Date: 1795
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,03 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan régulier et large. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine foncée. Surface légèrement granuleuse sur le bas des cheveux de Louis XVII
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de MONNAIES XVI, n° 1302 et de MONNAIES XXIV, n° 1782

Obverse


Obverse legend : LOUIS CHLES DAUP DE FRANCE NÉ À VERSAILLES LE 25 MARS 1785// MORT AU TEMPLE - LE 2 JANVIER 1795.
Obverse description : Buste juvénile de l'enfant en redingote à gauche.

Reverse


Reverse legend : VICTIMES DES INFAMIES REVOLUTIONNAIRES.
Reverse description : La Religion à droite en train d’accomplir une libation sur un autel ; à l’exergue : 1793.

Commentary


Très rare médaille au module légèrement supérieur aux essais de trente sols. Cet exemplaire est probablement antérieur au milieu du XIXe siècle.

Historical background


LOUIS XVII

(21/01/1793-8/06/1795)

The Duke of Normandy, second son of the marriage of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, was born in Versailles on March 27, 1785. He became dauphin after the death of his older brother who died on June 4, 1789. After August 10, 1792, he was locked up in the Temple with his parents. When his father was guillotined on January 21, 1793, the royalists proclaimed him titular king of France under the name of Louis XVII.. On July 3, 1793, he was separated from his mother, guillotined on October 16, then from his aunt Elisabeth, also guillotined on May 10, 1794.. He was entrusted to the care of the shoemaker Simon who, contrary to legend, would not have subjected him to any ill treatment.. On January 5, 1794, Louis XVII was entrusted to the custody of four commissioners of the Commune. The precise date of his death is uncertain; he probably died on June 8, 1795 and was secretly buried in the Sainte-Marguerite cemetery in Paris. His sister, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, 19 December 1778 – 19 October 1851, escaped death and after years of martyrdom was exchanged with the Austrians for Nicolas Marie Quinette Baron de Rochemont, Minister of the Interior, member of the Five Hundred, investigator into the treason of Dumouriez, captured on this occasion.

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