v22_0597 - SAVOY - DUCHY OF SAVOY - VICTOR-AMADEUS III 5 sols (5 soldi)
MONNAIES 22 (2005)
Starting price : 70.00 €
Estimate : 120.00 €
Realised price : 70.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 150.00 €
Starting price : 70.00 €
Estimate : 120.00 €
Realised price : 70.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 150.00 €
Type : 5 sols (5 soldi)
Date: 1794
Mint name / Town : Turin
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,16 g.
Coments on the condition:
Le portrait du duc est bien venu à la frappe. Reliefs un peu plus faibles au revers qu’au droit. Exemplaire recouvert d’une jolie patine marron et petit défaut de flan dans le champ, à droite de saint Maurice
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VICT. AMED. D. G. REX. SARD..
Obverse description : Buste habillé et cuirassé à droite de Victor-Amédée ; au-dessous 1794.
Obverse translation : (Victor-Amédée, par la grâce de Dieu, roi de Sardaigne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S. MAURITIUS - PAT. TOT. DIT.
Reverse description : Saint Maurice, debout, la tête tournée à droite, cuirassé et casqué, tenant un drapeau de sa main droite ; sous un trait d’exergue SOL. 5..
Reverse translation : (Saint Maurice, Patronius Totius Ditionis).
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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