fjt_275779 - LOUIS XVI Le roi martyr 1793
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 45.00 €
Type : Le roi martyr
Date: 1793
Mint name / Town : Nuremberg
Metal : silver plated copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R2
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LUD. XVI REX GALLIAE DEFUNCTUS.
Obverse description : Buste à gauche de Louis XVI inspiré des écus constitutionnels.
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOL REGNI ABIIT ; À L’EXERGUE D 21 IAN 1793.
Reverse description : Une urne funéraire, à côté une couronne et un sceptre au sol.
Reverse translation : Le soleil du royaume s’est couché.
Commentary
Techniquement la gravure n’est pas optimale et nous devons l’attribuer à Nuremberg même si le style est bien meilleur que les productions standards de l’atelier allemand. Les lettres de la légende ne sont pas faites au poinçon mais gravées manuellement et sont irrégulières. On peut penser qu’il s’agit d’une production privée et il est certain que le jeton n’est pas en argent malgré une surface parfaite. L’argenture est parfaitement d’époque et l’on doit constater que la révolution n’était guère populaire outre-Rhin.
Technically, the engraving is not optimal and we must attribute it to Nuremberg, even if the style is much better than the standard productions of the German workshop. The letters of the legend are not made with a punch but manually engraved and are irregular. One can assume that it is a private production and it is certain that the token is not made of silver despite a perfect surface. The silvering is perfectly contemporary and it must be noted that the revolution was hardly popular across the Rhine
Technically, the engraving is not optimal and we must attribute it to Nuremberg, even if the style is much better than the standard productions of the German workshop. The letters of the legend are not made with a punch but manually engraved and are irregular. One can assume that it is a private production and it is certain that the token is not made of silver despite a perfect surface. The silvering is perfectly contemporary and it must be noted that the revolution was hardly popular across the Rhine
Historical background
LOUIS XVI
(05/10/1774-01/21/1793)
After the days of October 5 and 6, 1789, the Parisians brought back from Versailles to Paris, "the baker, the baker and the little baker" (royal family) who settled in the Tuileries. On November 2, 1789, the property of the Church was nationalized. The kingdom is divided into 83 departments in December. On April 17, 1790, the assignat became paper money and became legal tender, then forced tender from September. The property of the clergy is put up for sale as "national property". On June 19, titles and nobility are abolished. On July 12, the Civil Constitution of the Clergy is voted. The Federation Day, July 14, seems to mark the end of the Revolution and symbolizes what unites the King, the kingdom and the people. Mirabeau died on April 12, 1791. The passage of the Le Chapelier law prohibited corporations, associations and professional unions and suppressed the right to strike. The King was arrested in Varennes on June 22 while trying to escape. La Fayette had the crowd fired at the Champ de Mars on July 17, 1791. On September 3, the Legislative Assembly replaced the Constituent Assembly, which separated. The King takes an oath to the Nation.
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