v22_0372 - CORSICA - PASCAL PAOLI 8 deniers (8 denari)
MONNAIES 22 (2005)
Starting price : 6 000.00 €
Estimate : 7 500.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 6 000.00 €
Estimate : 7 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : 8 deniers (8 denari)
Date: 1768
Mint name / Town : Corte
Metal : billon
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 0,70 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Cette pièce est frappée sur un flan assez large et légèrement voilé. Exemplaire ayant conservé au revers une partie de son argenture
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de maure sur un écu couronné festonné soutenu par deux anges, posé sur un cartouche orné ; simple grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : *8* / DENARI / 1768.
Reverse description : en trois lignes dans le champ ; le tout dans un simple grènetis.
Reverse translation : (8 deniers, 1768).
Commentary
Dénomination de la plus grande rareté qui ne fut frappée qu’en 1762 et 1768.
Historical background
CORSICA - PASCAL PAOLI
(1761-1768)
Corsica had been a Genoese possession since 1347 when the Corsicans revolted in 1731-1732. Pascal Paoli (1725-1807) was elected general-in-chief in 1755 and Corsica was independent from 1761 until 1768 when the Treaty of Versailles of May 15, 1768 united Corsica to the Kingdom despite fierce resistance from the Corsicans who wanted maintain their independence. Laetitia and Charles Bonaparte, also resistants, were to give birth to Napoleon in French Corsica on August 15, 1769. Pascal Paoli, beaten at Pontenuovo in 1769, left Corsica. He will return there in 1793 with an English squadron which will occupy the island until 1796. Pascal Paoli will die in exile in London.
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