Jeton - Etats de Bourgogne - Claude Fyot, élu du clergé argent

Reverse

Sun beaming, overcoming lightning and piercing clouds; date in exergue.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
DISSOLVET ET ISTAM
• 1701 •

Edge

Milled.

Comment

Claude Fyot, the last abbot of Saint-Étienne de Dijon, was elected to the Clergy in 1700 and twice had the honor of being named Elected General of the States of Burgundy. A former chaplain to Louis XIV, he was also Count de Bosjon, honorary councillor to the Parliament. He bore azure, a chevron Or between three lozenges Or.