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Live auction - bfe_456104 - CITY OF STRASBOURG Thaler

CITY OF STRASBOURG Thaler AU
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Estimate : 1 000 €
Price : 775 €
Maximum bid : 775 €
End of the sale : 12 December 2017 16:42:25
bidders : 3 bidders
Type : Thaler
Date: c. 1622-1657
Mint name / Town : Strasbourg
Metal : silver
Diameter : 41,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 28,75 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Ce thaler est frappé sur un flan large et légèrement irrégulier. Exemplaire présentant de hauts reliefs et recouvert d’une légère patine grise
Catalogue references :
Bd.-  - EL.439 (34/3)

Obverse

Obverse legend : (DIFFÉRENT) NVMMVS (ROSE) REIP (ROSE) ARGENTORATENSIS (DEUX ROSES).
Obverse description : Deux lions face à face soutenant un écu allemand à la bande et tenant un lis.
Obverse translation : (Monnaie de la république de Strasbourg).

Reverse

Reverse legend : (FLEURON) SOLIVS* VIRTVTIS* FLOS* PERPETVVS:, (PONCTUATION PAR UNE SIMPLE ROSE).
Reverse description : Grande fleur de lis.

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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