Live auction - bry_1063177 - LOUIS XVI 15 sols dit "au génie", type FRANÇOIS 1792 Toulouse
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| Estimate : | 100 € |
| Price : | 67 € |
| Maximum bid : | 115 € |
| End of the sale : | 21 October 2025 16:14:01 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : 15 sols dit "au génie", type FRANÇOIS
Date: 1792 1er
Mint name / Town : Toulouse
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 666 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,93 g.
Edge : festonnée losangée
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Cette pièce de 15 sols est frappé sur un flan assez large et légèrement irrégulier. Patine grise. Monnaie présentant des rayures au droit et des stries d’ajustage au revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : LOUIS XVI ROI - DES FRANÇOIS. / 1792.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche de Louis XVI, les cheveux noués par un ruban sur la nuque ; (Mm) sous la tête.
Reverse
Reverse legend : REGNE - DE LA LOI. ; À L'EXERGUE L AN 4 DE LA / LIBERTE.
Reverse description : Génie gravant la Constitution posée sur un autel à droite ; de part et d'autre 15 - SOLS.
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 won the victory of Valmy over the Prussians on September 20, 1792. The news was quickly known thanks to Chappe's telegraph. 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..
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