fwo_765759 - GERMANY - CITY OF NUREMBERG - FRANCIS I Thaler 1761 Nuremberg

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Type : Thaler

Date: 1761

Mint name / Town : Nuremberg

Quantity minted : -

Metal : silver

Diameter : 41,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 27,83 g.

Edge : feuillue

Rarity : R1

Catalogue references :

KM/WC.18/335 - Schön.

Obverse

Obverse legend : DA PACEM DOMINE IN - DIEBVS NOSTRIS. 1761. / X. EINE FEINE MARK. S. F..

Obverse description : La ville de Nuremberg, couronné, assise près d’un autel tenant une branche d’olivier dans la main gauche, la main droite levée au ciel, le coude appuyé sur un bouclier.

Reverse

Reverse legend : FRANCISCVS. D.G.- ROM. IMP. SEMP. AVG..

Reverse description : Aigle bicéphale couronnée aux armes de Nuremberg et portant le collier de la toison d’or.

Historical background

GERMANY - CITY OF NUREMBERG - FRANCIS I

(1745-1765)

François I (8/12/1708-18/08/1765) was the son of Léopold de Lorraine and Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans. He succeeded his father in the duchies of Lorraine and Bar in 1729. In 1736, he renounced his two duchies which he exchanged for the grand duchy of Tuscany (1736-1765) and the promise to succeed Charles VI of Habsburg after having married his daughter Marie-Thérèse (1736). He had a total of sixteen children including Joseph II, Leopold II and Marie-Antoinette, the wife of Louis XVI. He had to fight for five years to obtain the imperial title (1740-1745). Emperor, he remained dominated by his wife and died in 1765.