E-auction 555-488026 - fme_768343 - THE CONVENTION Médaille, dénonçant la mort de la reine le 16 octobre 1793
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| Estimate : | 100 € |
| Price : | 37 € |
| Maximum bid : | 44 € |
| End of the sale : | 04 December 2023 19:50:00 |
| bidders : | 7 bidders |
Type : Médaille, dénonçant la mort de la reine le 16 octobre 1793
Date: (1794)
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Berlin
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver LOOS Daniel-Friedrich (1735-1819) / LOOS Friedrich Wilhelm (1767-1819)
Weight : 11,09 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron hétérogène, de l’usure sur les reliefs. Présence de quelques coups
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : MARIE ANTOINETTE - REINE DE FRANCE.
Obverse description : Grand buste diadémé, drapé de Marie-Antoinette à gauche avec une coiffure très élaborée, portant sur le cœur un petit médaillon de Louis XVI ; au-dessous signature LOOS.
Reverse
Reverse legend : I'ACCUSE IE IUGE - I'EXTERMINE // À L'EXERGUE : LE XVI OCTOBRE / MDCCXCIII.
Reverse description : Une Furie debout à gauche, la tête ornée de serpents, tenant de la main droite, une balance dont le fléau et les bras sont faussés ; le plateau gauche contient une couronne et un parchemin avec le mot LOI inscrit et le fléau droit un poignard, côté vers lequel la balance penche, et de la main gauche une torche allumée.
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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