fwo_673938 - GERMANY - CITY OF REGENSBURG (RATISBON) - FRANCIS I OF LORRAINE Thaler 1754 Regensbourg (Rastibonne)

GERMANY - CITY OF REGENSBURG (RATISBON) - FRANCIS I OF LORRAINE Thaler 1754 Regensbourg (Rastibonne) XF

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Type : Thaler

Date: 1754

Mint name / Town : Regensbourg (Rastibonne)

Metal : silver

Diameter : 41 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 27,61 g.

Edge : feuilletée

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

La pièce présente une usure régulière de circulation. De petits coups sur le listel

Catalogue references :

Dav.2618 - KM/WC.17/371 p. 472

Obverse

Obverse legend : FRANCISCUS D: G: ROM: IMP: SEMP: AVG..

Obverse description : Grand buste nu de François Ier, drapé et cuirassé à droite vu de trois quarts en avant avec le bijou de la Toison d'or ; au-dessous I.L. OEXLEIN f..

Obverse translation : (François par la grâce de Dieu, empereur romain, toujours auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : MONETA REIP. RATISPON. / X. ST. EINE. F. C. M. / 1754 / (MM) À L'EXERGUE EN TROIS LIGNES.

Reverse description : Vue de la ville de Regensbourg.

Reverse translation : (Monnaie de la République de Ratisbonne).

Historical background

GERMANY - CITY OF REGENSBURG (RATISBON) - FRANCIS I OF LORRAINE

(1745-1765)

François I (8/12/1708-18/08/1765) was the son of Léopold de Lorraine and Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans. He succeeded his father in the duchies of Lorraine and Bar in 1729. In 1736, he renounced his two duchies which he exchanged for the grand duchy of Tuscany (1736-1765) and the promise to succeed Charles VI of Habsburg after having married his daughter Marie-Thérèse (1736). He had a total of sixteen children including Joseph II, Leopold II and Marie-Antoinette, the wife of Louis XVI. He had to fight for five years to obtain the imperial title (1740-1745). Emperor, he remained dominated by his wife and died in 1765.