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fjt_072416 - NANTES (ALDERMANS AND MAYORS OF...) François Libault, sieur de Beaulieu 1767

NANTES (ALDERMANS AND MAYORS OF...) François Libault, sieur de Beaulieu XF
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Type : François Libault, sieur de Beaulieu
Date: 1767
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Edge : cannelée
Coments on the condition:
Légère usure de circulation visible notamment sur les palmes au revers et sur les cuisses des sirènes au droit. Très bel exemplaire
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : PRO DEO REGE ET PATRIA..
Obverse description : Écu couronné aux armes de François Libault et soutenu par deux sirènes ; à l’exergue : 1766 - 1767.
Obverse translation : (Pour Dieu, le roi et la patrie).

Reverse


Reverse legend : * DE LA MAIRIE D’ECUYER FRANÇOIS LIBAULT.
Reverse description : Écu couronné avec la caravelle nantaise, au chef d’hermines, autour une cordelière.

Commentary


François Libault est écuyer, sieur de Beaulieu, conseiller secrétaire du roi, colonel de la milice bourgeoise. Il est maire de 1766 à 1770. Ses armes portent d’argent à six fleurs de lis de gueules trois, deux et un, au chef de gueules, chargé de trois fers de lances d’argent.
François Libault was a squire, lord of Beaulieu, councillor and secretary to the king, and colonel of the bourgeois militia. He was mayor from 1766 to 1770. His coat of arms was silver with six fleurs-de-lis gules three, two and one, with a chief gules, charged with three spearheads argent

Historical background


NANTES (ALDERMANS AND MAYORS OF...)

The Town Hall of Nantes was installed in 1565 after having been created by François II in 1560, with the right to elect its aldermen. The first strikes of tokens are attested by the texts from 1569. The first tokens do not bear the name of the mayor, they are tokens of aldermen. A second period began in 1631 with the appearance of the mayor's name on the tokens. The coat of arms appeared in 1637. There are silver and copper tokens for this period. In the 18th century, on the other hand, most tokens were made of silver. In 1787, the mayor received 140 silver tokens and each alderman received 70, making a total of 700 annual tokens. Several studies have been made on this series: Fornier, in his study on the tokens of Brittany, listed 100 different tokens. Perthuis and de la Nicollière count 103 in the Golden Book of the Nantes City Hall, Soullard, Tokens of the Mayors of Nantes, finds a total of 135.

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