Live auction - fjt_564166 - CANADA - LOUIS XV Colonie française de l’Amérique 1751
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| Estimate : | 500 € |
| Price : | 260 € |
| Maximum bid : | 450 € |
| End of the sale : | 10 March 2020 17:52:48 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Colonie française de l’Amérique
Date: 1751
Metal : silver
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,00 g.
Edge : striée
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire ayant été anciennement nettoyé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LUD. XV. REX - CHRISTIANISS..
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Louis XV [n° 318], au-dessous signature F.M..
Obverse translation : (Louis XV, roi très chrétien).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SUB OMNI SIDERE CRESCUNT ; À L'EXERGUE EN DEUX LIGNES : COL. FRANC. DE/ LAM. 1751.
Reverse description : Un indigène debout à gauche, armé d'un arc et d'un carquois, coiffé de plumes, regardant des lis sur leurs tiges ; un crocodile sortant de l’eau à sa gauche.
Reverse translation : (Ils [les lys] poussent sous n'importe quelle étoile).
Historical background
CANADA - LOUIS XV
(1715-1763)
Canada was discovered by the Cabot Brothers in 1497 on behalf of England. Jean Verrazzano reconnoitred the shores of Canada on behalf of François I in 1524, but Jacques Cartier was responsible for discovering Canada and ascending the St. Lawrence estuary in 1534. A second expedition the following year enabled him to ascend the St. Lawrence to Stadacona (Quebec) and Hochelaga (Montreal). His third trip, in 1540, allowed him to create the first counter in Sainte Croix. Samuel Champlain then founded Quebec in 1608 and settled in Acadia. Canada had only ten thousand settlers in 1683 when the French began to clash with the English. By the Treaty of Utrecht, the French abandoned Acadia, Newfoundland and Hudson Bay to England, the origin of the conflict which would oppose France and England during the Seven Years' War (1756-1763).
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