fjt_128840 - SWITZERLAND - CONFEDERATION OF HELVETIA - CANTON OF GRISONS Jeton Cu 27, confirmation de l’alliance avec les Suisses 1664
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Type : Jeton Cu 27, confirmation de l’alliance avec les Suisses
Date: 1664
Metal : red copper
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,76 g.
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LVD. XIIII. D G. - FR. ET. NAV. REX..
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Louis XIV, type Guéant Prieur 242B.
Obverse translation : Louis XIV, par la grâce de Dieu, roi des Francs et de Navarre.
Reverse
Reverse legend : PCIPE SVB TANTO SACRVM NATOQ MANEBIT ; À L'EXERGUE : FOEDERE HELVETICO INSTAVRATO 1664.
Reverse description : Le roi debout tenant le dauphin par la main. Les Plénipotentiaires suisses devant un autel.
Reverse translation : Sous un prince si grand et si bien né, il restera sacré - Renouvellement de l'alliance avec les suisses.
Commentary
Pendant deux siècles, la Suisse a exporté des mercenaires, considérés comme les meilleurs soldats d’Europe. La France en fit usage et doubla cet accord commercial d’un accord politique destiné à éviter que les Suisses ne fournissent des contingents à des ennemis de la France. L'alliance de la France avec la Confédération Hélvétique ayant expiré depuis douze ans, on jugea à propos de la confirmer par un nouvel accord signé le 4 décembre 1663 à Soleure.
Buste rare.
For two centuries, Switzerland exported mercenaries, considered the best soldiers in Europe. France made use of this and coupled this commercial agreement with a political agreement designed to prevent the Swiss from providing contingents to enemies of France. Since France's alliance with the Swiss Confederation had expired twelve years earlier, it was deemed appropriate to confirm it with a new agreement signed on December 4, 1663, in Solothurn. Rare bust
Buste rare.
For two centuries, Switzerland exported mercenaries, considered the best soldiers in Europe. France made use of this and coupled this commercial agreement with a political agreement designed to prevent the Swiss from providing contingents to enemies of France. Since France's alliance with the Swiss Confederation had expired twelve years earlier, it was deemed appropriate to confirm it with a new agreement signed on December 4, 1663, in Solothurn. Rare bust
Historical background
SWITZERLAND - CONFEDERATION OF HELVETIA - CANTON OF GRISONS
The canton of Graubünden is the largest of the Swiss cantons. For two centuries, Switzerland exported mercenaries, considered the best soldiers in Europe. France made use of it and doubled this commercial agreement with a political agreement intended to prevent the Swiss from providing contingents to enemies of France The Helvetic Republic imposed by the French ended in 1803. Bonaparte, by the Act of mediation gave the Swiss cantons a new constitution which provided for military aid of 16,000 men in exchange for the creation of a federative republic where each canton had its government, almost universal suffrage was established, the army and the coin were common.
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