v22_0600 - SAVOY - DUCHY OF SAVOY - VICTOR-AMADEUS III 2 deniers (2 denari)
MONNAIES 22 (2005)
Starting price : 30.00 €
Estimate : 50.00 €
Realised price : 30.00 €
Starting price : 30.00 €
Estimate : 50.00 €
Realised price : 30.00 €
Type : 2 deniers (2 denari)
Date: 1777
Mint name / Town : Turin
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,71 g.
Coments on the condition:
Cette pièce est frappée sur un flan assez large et est légèrement décentrée au droit comme au revers. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VIC AM D G R SAR CY P ET IER D SAB ET MF PP.
Obverse description : Croix évidée.
Obverse translation : (Victor-Amédée, par la grâce de Dieu, roi de Sardaigne, Chypre et Jérusalem, duc de Savoie et Montferrat, prince de Piémont).
Reverse
Reverse description : Nœud sous une couronne sommée d’une croix de saint Maurice, accosté de deux roses ; au-dessous 1777.
Historical background
SAVOY - DUCHY OF SAVOY - VICTOR-AMADEUS III
(1773-1796)
Victor-Amédée III was born in 1726 in Turin. He is the son of Charles-Emmanuel III and Polyxene of Hesse. In 1750 he married Marie-Antoinette of Bourbon-Spain, daughter of King Philip V of Spain and Elizabeth of Spain. In 1773, he succeeded his late father. In 1792 he went to war against the newly proclaimed French Republic which took Savoy and Nice from him. On January 24, 1793, the French fleet bombarded Cagliaria. Helped only by the English, he could not reconquer his territories and the French invaded Piedmont in 1796 and imposed the Treaty of Paris on it. Overwhelmed by these defeats, Victor-Amédée III died in 1796 at the Château de Moncalieri.
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