Live auction - bry_976318 - LOUIS XVI Sol à l’écu hybride, avec droit de 12 deniers au faisceau 1791 Paris
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| Starting price : | 2 500 € |
| Estimate : | 5 000 € |
| Price : | 2 500 € |
| Maximum bid : | 2 500 € |
| End of the sale : | 04 March 2025 16:42:17 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Sol à l’écu hybride, avec droit de 12 deniers au faisceau
Date: 1791 2e
Mint name / Town : Paris
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 11,35 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Pièce de 12 deniers frappée sur un flan un flan irrégulier. de petites aspérités de surface de 8 à 10 heures au droit et faiblesse de frappe au niveau du millésime. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Monnaie illustrée sous le numéro 36202, p. 1128 de l’ouvrage d’Arnaud Clairand, Monnaies royales françaises et de la Révolution (1610-1794), Paris, 2023
Obverse
Obverse legend : LOUIS XVI ROI DES FRANÇOIS.
Obverse description : Buste de Louis XVI drapé à gauche, tête nue, les cheveux noués dans le cou par un ruban ; DUVIVIER sur la tranche du buste ; au-dessous la lettre d'atelier précédé d’un point.
Reverse
Reverse legend : (MG) FRANCIÆ ET - .A - NAVARRÆ. REX. 17-91.
Reverse description : Écu de France couronné.
Reverse translation : (roi de France et de Navarre).
Commentary
Monnaie hydride de la plus grande rareté connue par deux autres exemplaires, dont le premier publié par Arnaud Clairand en 1995 (BSFN, p. 1200-1205) est conservé dans les collections du Musée de Saint-Omer. Le droit correspond aux pièces de 12 deniers de type constitutionnel et le revers au type royal. Le point devant le A est le différent du commissaire Guillaume Cressart entré en fonction le 15 septembre 1791.
Historical background
LOUIS XVI
(05/10/1774-01/21/1793)
The Girondin ministry, formed on March 23, 1792, declared war on April 20 on the King of Bohemia and Hungary, Leopold II. Rouget de Lisle composes the Marseillaise on April 25th. The Fatherland is declared "in danger" on July 11. The Parisians and the Marseillais take the Tuileries and massacre the defenders of the castle, Swiss and noble, the king and his family take refuge near the Assembly. Louis XVI was stripped of his functions and interned in the Temple on August 12. In early September, massacres took place in Parisian prisons, including the Carmelites, and claimed thousands of victims, including the Princess of Lamballe, Marie-Antoinette's friend. Dumouriez and Kellermann won the victory of Valmy over the Prussians on September 20, 1792. The news was quickly known thanks to Chappe's telegraph. The following day, the republic was proclaimed and royalty abolished at the first meeting of the Convention. Dumouriez defeated the Austrians at Jemmapes on November 6 and occupied Brussels. The King's trial begins on December 10. On January 17, he was sentenced to death by a majority vote and was guillotined on January 21, 1793..
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