fme_505429 - LOUIS XVI LOUIS XVI sacre le 11 juin 1775
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Price : 75.00 €
Type : LOUIS XVI sacre le 11 juin 1775
Date: 1775
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 41,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver Benjamin Duvivier
Weight : 35,03 g.
Edge : lisse + corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Traces de manipulation. Usure sur les points hauts
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LUDOVICUS XVI. REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS.
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Louis XVI ; au-dessous signé : B. DUVIVIER F.
Obverse translation : (Louis XVI, roi très chrétien).
Reverse
Reverse legend : DEO CONSECRATORI ; À L'EXERGUE EN DEUX LIGNES : UNCTIO. REGIA. REMIS / XI. JUN. MDCCLXXV.
Reverse description : La religion dans un nuage, tenant un calice rayonnant et en train de oindre le roi, agenouillé devant un autel ; à côté, le sceptre, la main de justice et la couronne sur un tabouret.
Historical background
LOUIS XVI
(06/11/1775)
During the coronation of a king of France, from Henri II, tokens and medals were made. In his work on the medals and tokens of the coronation of the kings of France in Reims, Sombart distinguishes three categories whose usefulness is diverse: firstly, in gold, they are used for the ceremony during which the king offers 13 to the archbishop; secondly, tokens and medals were distributed when the king left the cathedral to the crowd massed in the forecourt; thirdly, coronation tokens and medals were made privately and were sold to commemorate the event either at the time of the coronation or afterwards. Concerning the coronations in Reims, 112 types of tokens and medals are known for kings Henri II, François II, Charles IX, Henri III, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI and Charles X.
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