fjt_737369 - VALENCIENNES - CONDÉ SUR L'ESCAUT Assemblée de Valenciennes, émission de 1789 1789
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Type : Assemblée de Valenciennes, émission de 1789
Date: 1789
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7,97 g.
Edge : cannelée
Rarity : R1
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LUD. XVI. REX CHRISTIANISS.
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Louis XVI.
Obverse translation : Louis XVI, Roi très chrétien.
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONSILIUM VALENCENENSE ; À L'EXERGUE : 1789.
Reverse description : Écu aux armes de Valenciennes soutenues par deux cigognes.
Reverse translation : Assemblée de Valenciennes.
Historical background
VALENCIENNES - CONDÉ SUR L'ESCAUT
In 1676, Louis XIV seized Condé (the seat was directed by Vauban) which became definitively French in 1678 by the Treaty of Nijmegen. Vauban then du Buat improved the fortifications of the old stronghold, which did not prevent the Austrian troops of François de Saxe-Cobourg from occupying the town after a blockade of 92 days (July 10, 1793). Cleared of the Austrians on September 3, 1794, it fell into the hands of the “Coalisés” during the fall of Napoleon (1815): they did not leave it until three years later, in 1818.
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