fjt_240620 - CONSECRATION IN REIMS Jeton Ar 30, sacre de Louis XVI 1775
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Price : 120.00 €
Type : Jeton Ar 30, sacre de Louis XVI
Date: 1775
Metal : silver
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LUDOVICUS XVI. - REX CHRISTIANISS..
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Louis XVI, signé L. LEONARD, type Guéant Prieur 704C.
Obverse translation : Louis XVI, roi très chrétien.
Reverse
Reverse legend : DEO CONSECRATORI ; À L’EXERGUE : UNCTIO. REGIA. REMIS 11 JUNII 1775.
Reverse description : La religion dans un nuage, tenant un calice rayonnant et en train de oindre le roi, agenouillé devant un autel. A côté, le sceptre, la main de justice et la couronne sur un tabouret.
Reverse translation : Pour Dieu qui consacre ; à l’exergue : onction royale - Reims, 11 juin 1775.
Historical background
CONSECRATION IN REIMS
During the coronation of a king of France, from Henri III, 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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