v20_0722 - LOUIS XVI Jeton dénonçant la mort du roi le 21 janvier 1793 n.d.

LOUIS XVI Jeton dénonçant la mort du roi le 21 janvier 1793 XF

MONNAIES 20 (2004)
Starting price : 180.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
Realised price : 180.00 €

Type : Jeton dénonçant la mort du roi le 21 janvier 1793

Date: (1794)

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Berlin

Metal : silver

Diameter : 24,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 5,25 g.

Edge : lisse

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

De petites marques de manipulations dans les champs avec une légère usure sur les reliefs. Très bel exemplaire qui conserve une partie de son brillant d’origine

Obverse

Obverse legend : LUDWIG DER 16 KOENIG VON FRANKREICH.

Obverse description : Tête nue à droite de Louis XVI, les cheveux noués.

Obverse translation : (Louis XVI roi de France).

Reverse

Reverse legend : UNSCHULDIG GETÖDTET DEN 21 IANU: 1793.

Reverse description : Bête de l’Apocalypse dressée à sept têtes d’animaux divers et au corps de lion foulant une bible ouverte et un crucifix. L’animal tient une balance abîmée de la main droite et une épée de la main gauche ; à l’exergue : ZWIETRACHT.

Reverse translation : (Un innocent assassiné le 21 janvier 1793 ; Discorde).

Historical background

LOUIS XVI

(05/10/1774-01/21/1793)

The Girondin ministry, formed on March 23, 1792, declared war on April 20 on the King of Bohemia and Hungary, Leopold II. Rouget de Lisle composes the Marseillaise on April 25th. The Fatherland is declared "in danger" on July 11. The Parisians and the Marseillais take the Tuileries and massacre the defenders of the castle, Swiss and noble, the king and his family take refuge near the Assembly. Louis XVI was stripped of his functions and interned in the Temple on August 12. In early September, massacres took place in Parisian prisons, including the Carmelites, and claimed thousands of victims, including the Princess of Lamballe, Marie-Antoinette's friend. Dumouriez and Kellermann win the victory of Valmy over the Prussians. The news is known quickly thanks to the telegraph of Chappe. The following day, the republic was proclaimed and royalty abolished at the first meeting of the Convention. Dumouriez defeated the Austrians at Jemmapes on November 6 and occupied Brussels. The King's trial begins on December 10. On January 17, he was sentenced to death by a majority vote and was guillotined on January 21, 1793..