fme_775095 - SAVOY - DUCHY OF SAVOY - VICTOR-AMADEUS II Médaille, Défense et Pacification
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Price : 75.00 €
Type : Médaille, Défense et Pacification
Date: 1696
Metal : alloy
Diameter : 62,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 87,99 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Usure régulière. Présence de coups et rayures, notamment sur la tranche. Flan légèrement voilé
Obverse
Obverse legend : .VIC. AM. II. D. G. DVX. SAB. - PRINC. PED. REX. C.
Obverse description : Buste cuirassé de profil à gauche, signé sur le tranché du bras : V. V..
Obverse translation : Victor Amédée II, par la Grâce de Dieu, Duc de Savoye, Prince de Piémont, Roi de Chypre.
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROPVGNATA. ET PACATA. // À L’EXERGUE : 1696..
Reverse description : Allégorie féminine de l’Italie assise sur un globe terrestre, drapée à l’antique, tourelée, tenant un sceptre d’une main et une corne d’abondance de l’autre d’où sortent les couronnes des différents princes d’Italie. Lion tenant une lance à gauche.
Reverse translation : Défendue et pacifiée.
Historical background
SAVOY - DUCHY OF SAVOY - VICTOR-AMADEUS II
(1675-1730)
Victor-Amédée II was born in 1666 from the union of Charles-Emmanuel II and Marie-Jeanne Baptiste de Savoie-Nemours. He succeeded his father in 1675 and was the fifteenth Duke of Savoy and the first King of Sardinia. In 1684, he married his cousin, Anne d'Orléans, daughter of Philippe d'Orléans, brother of Louis XIV and Henrietta of England. In 1690, Victor-Amédée II broke off relations with Louis XVI during the War of the League of Augsburg and allied himself with Spain and Austria. In 1693, he reconciled with the King of France. In 1723, he ordered the cadastration of his kingdom. In 1714, he built the Basilica of the Superga in Turin. In 1730, he abdicated in favor of his son but reversed his decision in 1731 and was arrested and imprisoned in Moncalieri where he died in 1732. He was buried at the Superga.
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