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fme_744267 - THE CONVENTION Médaille en mémoire du combat des Tuileries du 10 août, tirage uniface

THE CONVENTION Médaille en mémoire du combat des Tuileries du 10 août, tirage uniface VF
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Type : Médaille en mémoire du combat des Tuileries du 10 août, tirage uniface
Date: MDCCXCII
Date: (1792)
Metal : tin
Diameter : 54 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver Benjamin Duvivier (1728-1819)
Weight : 25,09 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Patine grise hétérogène. Flan légèrement voilé. Présence de coups et rayures. De l’usure sur les reliefs
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Marineche

Obverse


Obverse legend : EXEMPLE - AUX - PEUPLES / LE. X. AOUST MDCCXCII ET SIGNATURE DUV. SUR LA LIGNE D’EXERGUE.
Obverse description : La Liberté, ailée, tenant de la main gauche la pique surmontée du bonnet, et de la droite un foudre, brise sous ses pieds le sceptre, la main de Justice et la couronne.

Reverse


Reverse legend : LISSE.

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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