Live auction - fme_818289 - AUSTRIA - JOSEPH II Médaille, Maréchal Gideon Ernst von Laudon, Prise de Belgrade aux Turcs
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Maréchal Gideon Ernst von Laudon, Prise de Belgrade aux Turcs
Date: 1789
Metal : tin
Diameter : 47 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 36,13 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine grise hétérogène, de l’usure sur les reliefs. Présence de coups et rayures. Trou percé à 12 heures
Obverse
Obverse legend : LAUDON K. K. GENERAL FELD MARSCHAL.
Obverse description : Buste habillé, en tenue d’apparat à gauche, signé sur le tranché du bras : R..
Reverse
Reverse legend : DORT. HERR. U. GIDEON. LAUDON. HIR. U. BELGRAT. FALT. // À L’EXERGUE : EELGRAT. D. 8. OCT. / 1789..
Reverse description : Cavalier cuirassé, casqué et armé sur un cheval se cabrant vers la gauche. Vue sur la ville et le camp à l’arrière plan.
Historical background
AUSTRIA - JOSEPH II
(08/18/1765-02/20/1790)
Joseph II (13/03/1741-20/021790) is the eldest son of Marie-Thérèse of Austria and François III of Lorraine. He received the imperial crown on the death of his father in 1765 and only succeeded to the rest of the possessions on the death of his mother in 1780. Married twice, he had no children and is his brother Leopold II who succeeded him in 1790 at the start of the French Revolution. He is the brother of Marie-Antoinette, the wife of Louis XVI.
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