Token - Louis XIIII - Pugnat Et Excitat Artes ND

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Central circle with Minerva standing left, left hand raised on her spear, in her right brushes and a palette. On land, her shield (decorated with the face of Medusa) on the left, at her feet her owl, behind her the wall of a park with trees. Lettering outside circle, toothed border

Script: Latin

Lettering: · PVGNAT · ET · EXCITAT · ARTES ·

Translation: Pugnat et excitat Artes [She defends and promotes the Arts]

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Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom and sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy. She was born with weapons from the head of Jupiter.
 Marie-Therese of Austria: Maria Theresa (1638-1683) was the daughter of Philip IV of Spain and Elisabeth of France, the daughter of Henry IV and Marie de Medici. She was born in 1638, like her cousin the King, to whom she is betrothed to the outcome of the Treaty of the Pyrenees of 7 November 1659. She married June 9, 1660 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz and had six children , only one survived, Louis, the Grand Dauphin (1661-1711). She died on July 30, 1683. Louis XIV secretly married his second wife with the Marquise de Maintenon in 1683 (1638-1719).