fwo_734673 - SAVOY - DUCHY OF SAVOY - CHARLES-EMMANUEL III Huitième d’écu (Ottavo di Scudo Nuovo) 1757 Turin
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Type : Huitième d’écu (Ottavo di Scudo Nuovo)
Date: 1757
Mint name / Town : Turin
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,14 g.
Rarity : R2
Obverse
Obverse legend : CAR. EM. D. G. REX. SAR. CYP. ET. IER..
Obverse description : Tête nue à gauche de Charles-Emmanuel III ; au-dessous 1757.
Obverse translation : (Charles-Emmanuel, par la grâce de Dieu, roi de Sardaigne, Chypre et Jérusalem).
Reverse
Reverse legend : DVX. SABAVD. ET. MONTISFER. PRINC. PEDEM &.
Reverse description : Écu couronné.
Reverse translation : (Duc de Savoie et Montferrat, prince de Piémont, etc.).
Historical background
SAVOY - DUCHY OF SAVOY - CHARLES-EMMANUEL III
(1730-1773)
Charles-Emmanuel III was born on April 27, 1701 from the union of Victor-Amédée II and Anne d'Orléans. In 1722, he married Christine Louise of Bavaria-Sulzbach who died on March 18, 1723. He married in second marriage Polyxene of Hesse. In 1730, he acceded to the throne of Savoy after the abdication of his father. He allied with the French in 1733 during the War of Succession. On January 13, 1735, his second wife died and he married for the third time, on April 1, 1737, Thérèse Élisabeth de Lorraine who died four years later. He died in Turin in 1773, aged 72..
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