bry_1064023 - LOUIS XVI Écu dit "au génie", légende FRANÇAIS 1792 Strasbourg
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Type : Écu dit "au génie", légende FRANÇAIS
Date: 1792 2e
Mint name / Town : Strasbourg
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰
Diameter : 38,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Edge : (rose) LA NATION (rose) (fleuron).. (losange).. (fleuron) (rose) LA LOI (rose) (fleuron) (lis) (fleuron) (rose) ET LE ROI (fleuron) (lis) (fleuron)
Rarity : R3
Slab
PCGS : VF30
Coments on the condition:
Cet écu est frappé sur un flan large et régulier. Monnaie présentant des faiblesses de frappe et une usure régulière. Patine grise. Quelques hairlines
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Monnaie sous coque PCGS VF30, n° 802240.30/48711772
Obverse
Obverse legend : LOUIS XVI ROI - DES FRANÇAIS. / 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 5 DE LA / LIBERTÉ..
Reverse description : Génie gravant la Constitution posée sur un autel à droite, entre un faisceau de licteur surmonté d'un bonnet phrygien et un coq.
Commentary
Monnaie de la plus grande rareté avec FRANÇAIS au lieu de FRANÇOIS et de surcroît au millésime 1792, encore plus rare que celles de 1793.
Coin of the greatest rarity with FRANÇAIS instead of FRANÇOIS and moreover with the vintage 1792, even rarer than those of 1793
Coin of the greatest rarity with FRANÇAIS instead of FRANÇOIS and moreover with the vintage 1792, even rarer than those of 1793
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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