Token - Louis XV (Experts Des Batimens) ND

Reverse

Two buildings, colonnade left distant, arch right present, with plumb line center hanging from left corner of right building
Inscriptions surrounding and in ex.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
•RECTI IRREQUIETA CUPIDO•
EXPERTS DES BATIMENS

Translation:
Incessant desire for a straight line
Building Experts

Engraver: Pierre-Benjamin Duvivier

Edge

Milled

Comment

Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier
French engraver of coins and medals 1730-1819.
Son of the well-known medallist Jean Duvivier ...who died on 30 April 1761. Benjamin applied to the king to retain the position that his father had occupied in the Louvre Galleries, and on 7 June 1762 this was granted to him, and he thus assumed his father's job as medallist to the King. Benjamin Duvivier probably had more talent than his father. On 24 November 1764 he was accepted as a Member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture... On 21 August 1774 he obtained the position of general engraver of coins, replacing Joseph-Charles Roëttiers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Simon-Benjamin_Duvivier


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