Nuremberg counter token jeton Louis XVI coronation DIGNISSIMO IETTON brass France couronnement Feuardent 13406 Rechenpfennig XF-MS

Nuremberg, counter token for the coronation of Louis XVI, brass.

Obverse: bust of Louis XVI to the left, in armour with the star of an order, LUD. XVI. D.G. FR. ET NAVR. REX. around, and a signature below the truncation.

Reverse: the king in coronation robes, enthroned to the left, the sceptre in his right hand, an angel hovering above with a crown, colonnades to left and right. Legend DIGNISSIMO, to the most worthy. In the exergue IETTON.

References: Feuardent 13406.

Very rare in this condition.

This type is known in two varieties, one without the word in the exergue and one with it. The present piece belongs to the second group and carries IETTON below the throne scene. The series was made in Nuremberg, the centre of European counter production. The Nuremberg masters worked almost entirely for export and chose their images to suit their customers: French kings, Dutch events, whatever was in demand. Through the 17th and 18th centuries these discs were used less and less for calculating and more and more as gaming pieces or small keepsakes. Louis XVI was anointed at Reims on 11 June 1775.

A French royal image, manufactured in a free imperial city, for a market spread across Europe.

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