Live auction - bry_824991 - LOUIS XVI Écu aux branches d'olivier 1789 Lille
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| Estimate : | 400 € |
| Price : | 200 € |
| Maximum bid : | 200 € |
| End of the sale : | 25 April 2023 17:01:33 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Écu aux branches d'olivier
Date: 1789
Mint name / Town : Lille
Quantity minted : 41915
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰
Diameter : 39 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 29,19 g.
Edge : (fleuron) fleuron) DOMINE (fleuron) (lis) (fleuron) SALVUM (fleuron) (lis) (fleuron) (lis) (fleuron) FAC (fleuron) (lis) (fleuron) REGEM
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Écu frappé sur un flan un peu court. Des traces d’usure sont visibles à l’avers en particulier. De fines rayures ainsi que des taches sont également présentes. Restes de brillant de frappe à l’avers et au revers
Catalogue references :
Cl-MRF35100 - C.2187 (8 ex.) - SCF.24A (8 ex.) - Sobin1034 - G.356 - Dr.606 - Dy.1708 - Dr.2/616 - R.8/16
Obverse
Obverse legend : LUD. XVI. D. G. FR. - ET NAV. REX..
Obverse description : Buste de Louis XVI à gauche, portant une veste brodée, avec l'ordre du Saint-Esprit, les cheveux noués sur la nuque par un ruban. B. DUVIV. F. sur la tranche du buste ; (Mm) sous le buste.
Obverse translation : (Louis XVI, par la grâce de Dieu, roi de France et de Navarre).
Reverse
Reverse legend : .SIT NOMEN DOMINI - W - BENEDICTUM (MG) 1789.
Reverse description : Écu de France ovale, couronné entre deux branches d'olivier.
Reverse translation : (Béni soit le nom du Seigneur).
Historical background
LOUIS XVI
(05/10/1774-01/21/1793)
After the days of October 5 and 6, 1789, the Parisians brought back from Versailles to Paris, "the baker, the baker and the little baker" (royal family) who settled in the Tuileries. On November 2, 1789, the property of the Church was nationalized. The kingdom is divided into 83 departments in December. On April 17, 1790, the assignat became paper money and became legal tender, then forced tender from September. The property of the clergy is put up for sale as "national property". On June 19, titles and nobility are abolished. On July 12, the Civil Constitution of the Clergy is voted. The Federation Day, July 14, seems to mark the end of the Revolution and symbolizes what unites the King, the kingdom and the people. Mirabeau died on April 12, 1791. The passage of the Le Chapelier law prohibited corporations, associations and professional unions and suppressed the right to strike. The King was arrested in Varennes on June 22 while trying to escape. La Fayette had the crowd fired at the Champ de Mars on July 17, 1791. On September 3, the Legislative Assembly replaced the Constituent Assembly, which separated. The King takes an oath to the Nation.
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