Live auction - fme_739257 - THE CONVENTION Matrice, Ouverture des Etats généraux, tirage uniface du revers
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| Estimate : | 300 € |
| Price : | 520 € |
| Maximum bid : | 520 € |
| End of the sale : | 07 June 2022 20:05:06 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Matrice, Ouverture des Etats généraux, tirage uniface du revers
Date: 1789
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 44 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 31,84 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des taches noires, des coups et rayures, notamment au revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : REGENARATION - DE LA FRANCE // À L’EXERGUE : OUVERTURE DES ETATS / GENER A VERSAILLES / LE 4 MAI 1789.
Obverse description : Génie de la France, sur des nuages, portant un écu aux armes de France, tient une couronne de laurier au dessus du buste de Louis XVI, placé sur un autel où est inscrit : "AMOUR DE LA PATRIE" ; une corne d'abondance est appuyée sur l'autel ; à gauche, un laboureur conduit sa charrue ; à droite un arbre où sont suspendues la crosse, l'épée et la bêche, symboles des trois ordres.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LISSE.
Commentary
La médaille (avers et revers) en étain est visible dans les collections du musée Carnavalet. Cf. https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/de/node/122313#infos-principales.
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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