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Live auction - fme_470728 - DIRECTOIRE Médaille, Conseil des Anciens, refrappe

DIRECTOIRE Médaille, Conseil des Anciens, refrappe AU
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Estimate : 200 €
Price : 100 €
Maximum bid : 100 €
End of the sale : 29 October 2019 16:47:27
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Médaille, Conseil des Anciens, refrappe
Date: An 5 (1796-1797)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 41,36 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver GATTEAUX Nicolas-Marie (1751-1832)
Weight : 33,09 g.
Edge : lisse + corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron hétérogène avec de petites concrétions vertes à l’avers

Obverse


Obverse legend : RÉPUBLIQUE - FRANÇAISE // À L'EXERGUE REPRES. DU PEUP. // L'AN V. ; SIGNÉ GATTEAUX.
Obverse description : Faisceau de licteur surmonté d'un bonnet phrygien lauré posé sur une pique, accosté de deux cornes d'abondance renversées déversant les fruits sur une base.

Reverse


Reverse legend : CONSEIL DES ANCIENS.
Reverse description : Ourobouros entourant la CONSTITUTION / DE / L'AN TROIS posée sur un niveau.

Commentary


Refrappe du XIXe avec le poinçon (corne) BRONZE sur la tranche.

Historical background


DIRECTOIRE

(26/10/1795-9-10/11/1799)

When the Convention separated on October 25, 1795, a new executive power provided for by the Thermidorian constitution was put in place.. This constitution plans to entrust power to a board of five members, each of whom presides in turn, with the replacement of one member every two years.. This board appoints ministers and civil servants, directs foreign policy and enforces laws, but it does not draft them and has no control over public funds.. Power is shared with two chambers: the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Elders which form the Legislative Body.. This power is determined to maintain itself in the face of the risk of a monarchical restoration or a Jacobin reaction, but it is above all paralyzed by the financial crisis and must give up the assignat in 1796.. The replacement of the assignats by the territorial mandates does not inspire more confidence and this new fiduciary coin is abolished in 1797. Faced with misery and attempts at destabilization, the Directory, accused of being a "bourgeois republic", returned to revolutionary and police measures. Moreover, since 1792, the war has been uninterrupted and the influence of military leaders is growing.. In 1799, the supporters of a strong power, including Sieyès, found themselves in the Directory and they opened the way to power for Bonaparte, back from Egypt.. The coup of 18 and 19 brumaire year VIII allows the establishment of a military dictatorship under the name of Consulate.

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