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fme_564146 - SWEDEN - KINGDOM OF SWEDEN - GUSTAF III Médaille linéenne, mort de Carol von Linné

SWEDEN - KINGDOM OF SWEDEN - GUSTAF III Médaille linéenne, mort de Carol von Linné XF
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Price : 100.00 €
Type : Médaille linéenne, mort de Carol von Linné
Date: 1778
Metal : tin
Diameter : 53 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver Gustav Ljunberger
Weight : 56,57 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Traces de manipulation avec de petites rayures. Présence de taches blanches sur la tranche. De l’usure est visible sur les hauts reliefs

Obverse


Obverse legend : CAROLUS LINNAEUS ARCH. REG. EQV. AURATUS..
Obverse description : Buste habillé à droite, Signé : LIUNGBERGER.

Reverse


Reverse legend : DEAM LUCTUS ANGIT AMISSI. // À L’EXERGUE : POST OBITUM UPSALIAE / D. X. JAN. MDCCLXXVIII. / REGE JUBENTE..
Reverse description : La Nature en deuil, tenant une clé, entourée de différents animaux, à ses pieds la Linnée.

Commentary


Linné fut professeur de botanique à l’Université d’Upasl, en Suède. Des médailles ont été frappées en son honneur comme celle-ci, frappée par ordre du roi et décrite dans la Biographie de Linné, pl. III, n°3.
cf. Numismatique Linnéenne, 1847, Hippolyte Charles Louis Kluyskens.

Historical background


SWEDEN - KINGDOM OF SWEDEN - GUSTAF III

(12/02/1771-29/03/1792)

Gustave III (24/01/1746-29/03/1792) is the son of Adolphe-Frédéric (1710-1771) who reigned over Sweden from 1753 to 1771 and Louise Ulrica of Prussia (1710-1782). He succeeded his father in 1771 and married Sophie Madeleine of Denmark (1746-1813) in 1766 with whom he had two sons, Charles Gustave who died young and Gustave-Adolphe IV (1778-1837) who succeeded his father in 1792 before dying. abdicated in 1809. Gustave III was the Swedish model of the enlightened despot, a great admirer of France. He fought against Denmark and Russia. Freemason, he developed the Order in Sweden, but clashed with the conservative party of "caps" and was assassinated by one of its officers on the eve of declaring war on revolutionary France. Charles XIII (1748-1818), brother of Gustave III, had already been regent between 1792 and 1796 and succeeded his nephew in 1809. Died childless, it was Charles XIV Jean Bernadotte (1818-1844) who ascended the throne.

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