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Live auction - bry_483500 - THE CONVENTION 24 livres au génie 1793 Paris

THE CONVENTION 24 livres au génie 1793 Paris AU53
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Estimate : 7 500 €
Price : 4 500 €
Maximum bid : 4 600 €
End of the sale : 05 June 2018 16:48:33
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : 24 livres au génie
Date: 1793 
Mint name / Town : Paris
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7,65 g.
Edge : festonnée
Rarity : R2
Slab
slab PCGS
PCGS : AU 53
Coments on the condition:
Cette pièce de 24 livres est frappée sur un flan régulier laissant apparaître une partie du grènetis. Du brillant de frappe reste visible au niveau des légendes. Usure sur les motifs centraux. Présence de coups au droit dans le champ et sur la couronne
Catalogue references :
Cl-MRF37000  - Maz.250  - Br.23A  - R.81/1

Obverse

Obverse legend : .REPUBLIQUE FRANÇOISE. / (MG). L'AN II. (MM).
Obverse description : 24 / LIVRES / - / A en trois lignes dans le champ, dans une couronne de chêne.

Reverse

Reverse legend : REGNE DE - LA LOI. / 1793. À L'EXERGUE.
Reverse description : Génie gravant la Constitution posée sur un autel à droite, entre un faisceau de licteur sommé d'un bonnet phrygien et un coq.

Commentary

Cet exemplaire est sous coque PCGS AU53, n°620202.53/33179944.

Historical background

THE CONVENTION

(21/09/1792-26/10/1795)

The Republic was proclaimed on September 22, 1792 by the Convention. France declares war on England, Holland and Spain in February and March 1793. The first coalition against France is made up of England, Holland, Austria, Russia, Spain , Prussia, Austria and Savoy. The French annex the Rhineland and Basel. Dumouriez, beaten at Neerwinden on March 18, decreed of accusation, goes over to the enemy. On March 10, 1793, the Revolutionary Tribunal was set up, then the Public Safety Committee on April 6. Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday on July 13, 1793. The end of the government of the Girondins on May 31 and June 2 brought their trial and execution on October 31. This is the beginning of the federalist movement in the provinces. Marseilles is taken on August 25 and Lyons on October 17. The Vendeans, who had taken Saumur on June 9, were crushed at Cholet on October 17. The mass levy was decreed on August 23. On September 5, the Convention establishes the Terror.

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