fwo_1051633 - SAVOY - DUCHY OF SAVOY - VICTOR-AMADEUS III Sol (soldo) 1781 Turin
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Type : Sol (soldo)
Date: 1781
Mint name / Town : Turin
Metal : billon
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,70 g.
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VIC.AM.D.G.REX.SAR.CYP.ET.IER*1781.
Obverse description : Croix évidée aux bras couronnée cantonnée de quatre croix de saint Maurice.
Reverse
Reverse legend : DVX.SAB.ET.MONTIS.PRINC.PED..
Reverse description : Le monogramme AM fleuronné sous une couronne accosté de S.-1.
Historical background
SAVOY - DUCHY OF SAVOY - VICTOR-AMADEUS III
(1773-1796)
Victor-Amédée III was born in 1726 in Turin. He is the son of Charles-Emmanuel III and Polyxene of Hesse. In 1750 he married Marie-Antoinette of Bourbon-Spain, daughter of King Philip V of Spain and Elizabeth of Spain. In 1773, he succeeded his late father. In 1792 he went to war against the newly proclaimed French Republic which took Savoy and Nice from him. On January 24, 1793, the French fleet bombarded Cagliaria. Helped only by the English, he could not reconquer his territories and the French invaded Piedmont in 1796 and imposed the Treaty of Paris on it. Overwhelmed by these defeats, Victor-Amédée III died in 1796 at the Château de Moncalieri.
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