Medal - Antoine de Lorraine and Renée de Bourbon - Médaillon de Saint-Urbain ND (1728) front Medal - Antoine de Lorraine and Renée de Bourbon - Médaillon de Saint-Urbain ND (1728) back
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Medal - Antoine de Lorraine and Renée de Bourbon - Médaillon de Saint-Urbain ND

1728 year
Bronze 40.50 g 46 mm
Description
Location
France
King
Louis XV (1715-1774)
Type
Commemorative medals › Personality medals
Year
1728
Composition
Bronze
Weight
40.50 g
Diameter
46 mm
Thickness
2 mm
Shape
Round with a loop
Technique
Milled
Orientation
Medal alignment ↑↑
Updated
2024-11-12
References
Numista
N#227250
Rarity index
97%

Reverse

Dressed and coiffed bust of Renée de Bourbon-Montpensier on the left.

Script: Latin

Lettering: RENATA . DE . BORBONIA . LOTHOR . ET BAR . DVCISSA .

Engraver: Saint-Urbain

Edge

Plain

Comment

Medal realized by the engraver of the Mint of Lorraine, Ferdinand de Saint-Urbain in Nancy in 1728 (1654 or 58-1738) and stemming from a series of medals with the portraits of the Lorraine sovereigns ordered by duke François III of Lorraine, (future emperor of the Holy Empire, under the name of François I)