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Jeton - Louis XIV - États de Bourgogne - La paix menacée cuivre

1701 year
Copper 9.40 g 30 mm
Description
Location
France
King
Louis XIV (1643-1715)
Type
Commemorative medals › Company, institution and association medals
Year
1701
Composition
Copper
Weight
9.40 g
Diameter
30 mm
Shape
Round
Technique
Milled
Orientation
Coin alignment ↑↓
Updated
2024-11-12
References
Numista
N#336863
Rarity index
93%

Reverse

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

Script: Latin

Lettering:
DISSOLVET ET ISTAM
• 1701 •

Unabridged legend: Dissolvet et istam.

Edge

Plain.

Comment

Il n'y a plus de Pyrénées" ("There are no more Pyrenees") were the words people liked to repeat in 1700; but no sooner had the assembly been dissolved than lightning burst over the horizon: the North was united against France and Spain, whose throne had just been given to the grandson of Louis XIV. Brulard, who in his speeches had often provided the subject for the tokens, again indicated that year's in these words, alluding to the king under the emblem of the sun: "He first enters the clouds by the gentleness of his influences. If they resist, he dissipates them and brings them down by the force of his rays".