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fjt_247296 - CITY OF STRASBOURG Naissance du Dauphin 1781

CITY OF STRASBOURG Naissance du Dauphin AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 280.00 €
Type : Naissance du Dauphin
Date: 1781
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R2
Catalogue references :
F.7841

Obverse

Obverse legend : VOTIS. SECULARIBUS. PRID. CAL. OCTOB. - MDCCLXXXI / LUD. XVI OPTIMO PRINCIPI.
Obverse translation : Louis XVI, le meilleur des princes.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ARGENTORATUM. FELIX..
Reverse translation : Heureuse ville de Strasbourg.

Commentary

Ce jeton fut frappé pour commémorer la naissance du dauphin, le 11 novembre 1781, probablement sur demande de la ville de Strasbourg dont le lis de type florentin est repris au revers de cet exemplaire. La forme hexagonale rappelle celle de monnaies locales de l’époque pré-française.

Historical background

CITY OF STRASBOURG

(Seventeenth century)

During the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), Alsace was ravaged by the belligerents: French, Germans and Swedes. In 1638, the Prince of Saxe-Weimar seized Alsace but he was killed in 1679 and the French recovered the new province which was attached to France by the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. In 1673, Alsace was invaded by the Imperials. Turenne won the victory of Turckheim in January 1675 and reconquered Alsace, but he was swept away by a cannonball in front of Salzbach on July 27, 1675. With the Treaty of Nijmegen, on February 5, 1679, Alsace definitively passed under French control. France seized Strasbourg on September 30, 1681 and Louis XIV entered the city on October 8..

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