Live auction - bry_559175 - THE CONVENTION Six livres dit "au génie" 1793 Paris
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| Estimate : | 3 500 € |
| Price : | 2 500 € |
| Maximum bid : | 2 500 € |
| End of the sale : | 10 March 2020 17:52:18 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Six livres dit "au génie"
Date: 1793 1er
Mint name / Town : Paris
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰
Diameter : 38,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Edge : inscrite en relief : LIBERTE EGALITE
Slab
PCGS : 63
Coments on the condition:
Cet exemplaire est frappé sur un flan large et régulier laissant apparaître une bonne partie des grènetis extérieurs. Exemplaire ayant conservé une partie de son brillant de frappe et présentant une petite cassure au niveau du D du DE la légende du revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire sous coque PCGS MS63, n° 776680.63/37070099
Obverse
Obverse legend : .REPUBLIQUE FRANÇOISE. / (MG). L'AN II. (MM).
Obverse description : SIX / LIVRES / - / A dans le champ dans une couronne de chêne.
Reverse
Reverse legend : REGNE - DE LA LOI., À L'EXERGUE 1793..
Reverse description : Génie gravant le mot CONSTI/TUTION sur une table de la loi reposant sur un autel, à gauche un faisceau de licteur sommé d'un bonnet phrygien, à droite un coq.
Commentary
Par habitude, la graveur de la Monnaie de Paris, François Bernier, avait placé son différent, une lyre à gauche du faisceau de licteur et un A derrière le coq comme sur les écus dits “constitutionnels”. Ceux-ci ont été ensuite repolis, mais il en subsiste encore quelques restes de gravure.
Historical background
THE CONVENTION
(21/09/1792-26/10/1795)
The Republic was proclaimed on September 22, 1792 by the Convention. France declares war on England, Holland and Spain in February and March 1793. The first coalition against France is made up of England, Holland, Austria, Russia, Spain , Prussia, Austria and Savoy. The French annex the Rhineland and Basel. Dumouriez, beaten at Neerwinden on March 18, decreed of accusation, goes over to the enemy. On March 10, 1793, the Revolutionary Tribunal was set up, then the Public Safety Committee on April 6. Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday on July 13, 1793. The end of the government of the Girondins on May 31 and June 2 brought their trial and execution on October 31. This is the beginning of the federalist movement in the provinces. Marseilles is taken on August 25 and Lyons on October 17. The Vendeans, who had taken Saumur on June 9, were crushed at Cholet on October 17. The mass levy was decreed on August 23. On September 5, the Convention establishes the Terror.
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