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bry_360837 - THE CONVENTION Six livres dit "au génie" 1793 Lyon

THE CONVENTION Six livres dit  au génie  1793 Lyon VF
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Type : Six livres dit "au génie"
Date: 1793 1er
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰
Diameter : 39,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 29,06 g.
Edge : LIBERTE (bonnet phrygien) (rinceau) ÉGALITÉ. (niveau) (rinceau)
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Cette pièce de six livres est frappée sur un flan large et régulier. Petit coup sur la tranche à 11 heures au revers. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise. Stries d’ajustage derrière la table de loi
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection R. Chevallier (1922-2015)

Obverse


Obverse legend : .REPUBLIQUE FRANÇOISE. - (MG). L'AN II. (MM).
Obverse description : SIX - LIVRES. / D dans le champ dans une couronne de chêne .

Reverse


Reverse legend : REGNE - DE LA LOI., À L'EXERGUE 1793..
Reverse description : Génie gravant le mot CONSTI/TUTION sur une table de la loi reposant sur un autel, à gauche un faisceau de licteur sommé d'un bonnet phrygien, à droite un coq.

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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