Live auction - fwo_405559 - ITALY - KINGDOM OF SARDINIA - VICTOR-EMMANUEL I 20 Lire 1820 Turin
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| Estimate : | 750 € |
| Price : | 621 € |
| Maximum bid : | 621 € |
| End of the sale : | 27 September 2016 17:46:20 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : 20 Lire
Date: 1820
Mint name / Town : Turin
Quantity minted : 32873
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,44 g.
Edge : inscrite en creux lacs d'amour et FERT FERT FERT
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
La monnaie présente des faiblesses de frappe et une usure de circulation sur les légendes. Le portrait est net. Stries d’ajustage au revers à 11 heures
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VIC. EM. D. G. REX SAR. CYP. ET IER./ 1820.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Victor Emmanuel à gauche ; signé A. L. en relief sur la tranche du cou.
Obverse translation : (Charles Félix par la grâce de Dieu, roi de Sardaigne, de Chypre et de Jérusalem).
Reverse
Reverse legend : DVX SAB. GENVAE ET MONTISF. PRINC. PED &/ L.20. (TÊTE D'AIGLE).
Reverse description : Écu couronné entouré du collier de l'Ordre de l’Annonciade entre deux branches de chêne.
Reverse translation : (Duc de Savoie, de Gênes et Montferrat, prince du Piémont).
Historical background
ITALY - KINGDOM OF SARDINIA - VICTOR-EMMANUEL I
(5/06/1802-13/03/1821)
Victor-Emmanuel I (24/07/1759-10/01/1824) is the second son of Victor-Amédée III and Marie de Bourbon. He succeeded Charles-Emmanuel IV in 1802. In 1789 he married Marie-Thérèse of Modena. He did not actually recover the Kingdom of Sardinia until 1814, at the end of the Napoleonic epic and the Treaty of Paris. He abdicated in favor of his brother Charles-Félix in 1821.
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