E-auction 679-720305 - CONSECRATION IN REIMS Louis XV 1723
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Type : Louis XV
Date: 1723
Mint name / Town : s.l.
Metal : brass
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,72 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène. Quelques points d’usure
Obverse
Obverse legend : LVD. XV. D. G. FR. ET. NAV. REX.
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Louis XV enfant lauré [n° 280].
Obverse translation : Louis XV, par la grâce de Dieu, roi de France et de Navarre.
Reverse
Reverse legend : REX COELESTI OLEO UNCTUS ; À L'EXERGUE : REMIS 23.OCT.1723..
Reverse description : Le roi, à genoux, à droite recevant l'onction sur le front, des mains de l'archevêque Armand-Jules de Rohan; au milieu, dix figures des grands personnages de la cour.
Reverse translation : Le roi oint par l'huile céleste.
Historical background
CONSECRATION IN REIMS
During the coronation of a king of France, from Henri III, tokens and medals were made. In his work on the medals and tokens of the coronation of the kings of France in Reims, Sombart distinguishes three categories whose usefulness is diverse: firstly, in gold, they are used for the ceremony during which the king offers 13 to the archbishop; secondly, tokens and medals were distributed when the king left the cathedral to the crowd massed in the forecourt; thirdly, coronation tokens and medals were made privately and were sold to commemorate the event either at the time of the coronation or afterwards. Concerning the coronations in Reims, 112 types of tokens and medals are known for kings Henri II, François II, Charles IX, Henri III, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI and Charles X.
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