fjt_915696 - ORLÉANAIS - Gentry and towns Jeton, Robert Colas des Francs, maire d’Orléans 1760
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Type : Jeton, Robert Colas des Francs, maire d’Orléans
Date: 1760
Metal : silver
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 10,77 g.
Edge : cannelée
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Obverse
Obverse legend : DE LA MAIRIE DE MR. COLAS DES FRANCS 1760..
Obverse description : Armes lambrequinées de Robert Colas des Francs, portant un sanglier.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ME VINDICE LILIA FLORENT ; À L'EXERGUE : AURELIA.
Reverse description : Jeanne d'Arc, assise de face, casquée et cuirassée, tenant de la main droite son épée, la gauche appuyée sur l'écu d'Orléans écrasant le lion anglais. Signé I. D.V. à droite.
Reverse translation : (Sous ma protection, les lis fleurissent).
Commentary
Signature I.D.V. à droite.
Historical background
ORLÉANAIS - Gentry and towns
Founded on the ruins of the Gallic city of Cenabum, the city takes the name of the emperor Aurélien, Aurelianum. The city was a bishopric from the 4th century then capital of a Frankish kingdom in the 6th century. Forming a county under the Carolingians, the Orleans region then became the territorial base of Capetian power. Endowed with a university since 1309, it was then besieged by the English but delivered by Joan of Arc in May 1429. The city then entered history several times during the Wars of Religion, the Fronde or in 1870 when it is occupied by von der Tann.
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