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E-auction 312-230650 - fme_470882 - THE CONVENTION Médaille en mémoire du combat des Tuileries du 10 août

THE CONVENTION Médaille en mémoire du combat des Tuileries du 10 août XF
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Estimate : 120 €
Price : 155 €
Maximum bid : 240 €
End of the sale : 08 April 2019 18:43:00
bidders : 8 bidders
Type : Médaille en mémoire du combat des Tuileries du 10 août
Date: MDCCXCII
Date: 1792
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 55,72 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver DUVIVIER Benjamin (1730-1819)
Weight : 78,18 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron hétérogène. Présence de coups et rayures
Catalogue references :
Hennin364

Obverse

Obverse legend : EXEMPLE - AUX - PEUPLES / X. AOUST MDCCXCII.
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 ; à l’exergue en deux lignes :.

Reverse

Reverse legend : A LA MÉMOIRE/ DU GLORIEUX COMBAT/ DU PEUPLE FRANÇAIS/ CONTRE LA TYRANNIE/ AUX TUILERIES ET À L’EXERGUE EN DEUX LIGNES : LA COMMUNE/ DE PARIS.
Reverse description : Une couronne ornée de deux bandelettes, inscription au-dessous en cinq lignes : .

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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