bry_1078606 - LOUIS XVI 2 sols dit "au faisceau", type FRANÇOIS 1791 Paris
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Type : 2 sols dit "au faisceau", type FRANÇOIS
Date: 1791 2e
Mint name / Town : Paris
Metal : bell metal
Diameter : 33,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Pièce de 2 sols frappée sur un flan large et régulier. Monnaie présentant très peu d’usure avec des faiblesses de frappe au niveau des liens du faisceau de licteur
Predigree :
Monaie sous coque PCGS, M63, n° 915396.63/47034546
Obverse
Obverse legend : LOUIS XVI ROI - DES FRANÇOIS. / (MM) .1791. A.
Obverse description : Buste de Louis XVI drapé à gauche, tête nue, les cheveux noués dans le cou par un ruban.
Reverse
Reverse legend : .LA NATION LA - LOI LE ROI. / L'AN 3 DE LA LIBERTÉ. (MG).
Reverse description : Faisceau sommé d'un bonnet phrygien entre deux branches de chêne, accosté de 2 / S..
Commentary
Variété avec un point au-dessus du A, différent de Guillaume Cressart, et donc frappé sous le second semestre, après le 15 septembre 1791.
Variety with a dot above the A, different from Guillaume Cressart, and therefore struck under the second half, after September 15, 1791
Variety with a dot above the A, different from Guillaume Cressart, and therefore struck under the second half, after September 15, 1791
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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