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bry_495316 - THE CONVENTION 2 sols dit "à la table de loi" 1793 Metz

THE CONVENTION 2 sols dit  à la table de loi  1793 Metz VF
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Price : 80.00 €
Type : 2 sols dit "à la table de loi"
Date: 1793 
Mint name / Town : Metz
Metal : bell metal
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 22,9 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie frappée sur un flan irrégulier. Patine hétérogène avec des incrustations vertes
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : REPUBLIQUE - FRANÇOISE. / L'AN II..
Obverse description : LES / HOMMES / SONT / EGAUX / DEVANT / LA LOI. / Dupré, en 7 lignes sur une table sommée d’un œil rayonnant et accostée d’une grappe de raisin et de cinq épis de blé.

Reverse


Reverse legend : .LIBERTE’ - EGALITE’. / (MG). 1793. (MM).
Reverse description : Balance sommée d'un bonnet phrygien sur le fléau sur lequel repose une couronne de chêne ; au centre 2. S. ; AA.

Historical background


THE CONVENTION

(21/09/1792-26/10/1795)

The Republic was proclaimed on September 22, 1792 by the Convention. France declares war on England, Holland and Spain in February and March 1793. The first coalition against France is made up of England, Holland, Austria, Russia, Spain , Prussia, Austria and Savoy. The French annex the Rhineland and Basel. Dumouriez, beaten at Neerwinden on March 18, decreed of accusation, goes over to the enemy. On March 10, 1793, the Revolutionary Tribunal was set up, then the Public Safety Committee on April 6. Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday on July 13, 1793. The end of the government of the Girondins on May 31 and June 2 brought their trial and execution on October 31. This is the beginning of the federalist movement in the provinces. Marseilles is taken on August 25 and Lyons on October 17. The Vendeans, who had taken Saumur on June 9, were crushed at Cholet on October 17. The mass levy was decreed on August 23. On September 5, the Convention establishes the Terror.

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