fjt_808148 - SWITZERLAND - CONFEDERATION OF HELVETIA - CANTON OF GRISONS LOUIS XIV LE GRAND OU LE ROI SOLEIL 1664
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Type : LOUIS XIV LE GRAND OU LE ROI SOLEIL
Date: 1664
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,25 g.
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Jeton provenant de la Collection MARINECHE
Obverse
Obverse legend : LVD. XIIII. D. G. - FR. ET. NAV. REX.
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Louis XIV, type Guéant Prieur 242C.
Obverse translation : Louis XIV, par la grâce de Dieu, Roi des Francs et de Navarre.
Reverse
Reverse legend : FOEDERE. HELVETICO. INSTAVRATO ; À L'EXERGUE : 1664.
Reverse description : Le Roi debout tenant le dauphin par la main, et les Plénipotentiaires suisses devant un autel.
Reverse translation : Renouvellement de l'alliance avec les Suisses.
Commentary
L'alliance de la France avec la Confédération Hélvétique ayant expiré depuis douze ans, on jugea à propos de la confirmer par un nouvel accord signé le 4 décembre 1663 à Soleure. Buste intéressant.
Historical background
SWITZERLAND - CONFEDERATION OF HELVETIA - CANTON OF GRISONS
The canton of Graubünden is the largest of the Swiss cantons. For two centuries, Switzerland exported mercenaries, considered the best soldiers in Europe. France made use of it and doubled this commercial agreement with a political agreement intended to prevent the Swiss from providing contingents to enemies of France The Helvetic Republic imposed by the French ended in 1803. Bonaparte, by the Act of mediation gave the Swiss cantons a new constitution which provided for military aid of 16,000 men in exchange for the creation of a federative republic where each canton had its government, almost universal suffrage was established, the army and the coin were common.
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