Jeton bâtiments du Roi LOUIS XV

Reverse

Apollo seated right holding a lyre and a square on a base signed D.V.. On the ground, musical instruments.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
IDEM. RERUM. MODERATUR. HABENAS
À L'EXERGUE : BATIMENS. DU. ROY.1738.

Edge

Plain

Comment

Under the Ancien Régime, the administration of the Bâtiments du Roi (King's Buildings), part of the Département de la Maison du Roi (King's Household Department), was mainly responsible for work commissioned by the sovereign in his residences in and around Paris.