Live auction - fme_969013 - FRENCH CONSTITUTION - NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Médaille, Départ des trois ordres
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Départ des trois ordres
Date: (1789)
Metal : alloy
Diameter : 78,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 116,01 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Présence de quelques rayures. Reliefs un peu mous
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : À L’EXERGUE : FIDEL A LA NATION / AU LOI AU ROI / 1789.
Obverse description : Des tables sur lesquelles on lit DROIT DE L’HOME et CONSITUTUTION, sont placés sur un autel, et appuyées contre un palmier : Mars et Minerve les soutiennent. le dieu est armé d’une épée; à ses pieds est un faisceau de piques. Aux pieds de la Déesse est un rameau d’olivier; de sa main gauche elle soutient un faisceau surmonté du bonnet de la Liberté, et orné du médaillon du Roi entre une branche de chêne et un de laurier, au bas de ce faisceau est appuyé l’écu de France.
Reverse
Reverse legend : A L’EXERGUE : DEPART DES TROIS ORDRES / POUR VERSAILLES.
Reverse description : Sur le char de l'État roulant à droite (sans caisse et formé de ressorts), un ecclésiastique menant une chouette sert de cocher, un guerrier portant un casque à crinière domine et enfin un paysan tenant un écu de France et une pique clôt le convoi.
Commentary
Alliage à base d’étain et de plomb.
Historical background
FRENCH CONSTITUTION - NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
(20/06/1789-21/09/1792
On June 17, 1789, the "States General" set themselves up as the "National Assembly". On June 20, the deputies of the Third Estate, as well as 149 representatives of the Clergy and 2 of the nobility, meet in the Salle du Jeu de Paume, in Versailles and swear not to separate until the Constitution is written. This is the famous "Oath of the tennis court". On July 9, this assembly became the "National Constituent Assembly". This assembly, which then had 1,200 deputies, sat first at Versailles and then at the Tuileries. From September 3 to 13, it votes the Constitution, which the King accepts. Its mission accomplished, it separated on September 30, 1791. It was immediately replaced by the Legislative Assembly..
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