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Assignat de 15 sols. Dimensions : 7,9 cm × 6,8 cm.
Assignats were paper money issued by the National Assembly in France from 1789 to 1796, during the French Revolution. The assignats were issued after the confiscation of church properties in 1790.
ECU FIGURANT « LE ROI ENFANT À LA MÈCHE LONGUE »
Atelier monétaire d’Angers
1647
Achat du musée en vente publique, 2008
Provenant du trésor de Montrichard (Indre-et-Loire)
In 1647, Louis XIV is only four years old. He’s depicted from profile, wearing a laurel crown, a Saint Esprit insigna and an armor. The letter F on one of the side attests the coin was created in Angers.
Found in a treasure that was buried around 1661, the coin didn’t travel much. The existence of that treasure can’t be explain yet.
The Oise département is putting online some of its wax tablet from the Middles Ages. The explanations are in French but you can see them by clicking on the codes beginning by EDT. Most of them are dealing with fiscal and budget matters and all are concerning the town of Senlis, Picardy.
For example the first tablet indicates the debt of the town of Senlis in 1309 and to whom the town was indebted.
(for the non-francophones, if you can’t access the page, and if a small window pop ups, just check the box at the bottom: it is for the copyright. You’re not allowed to use the tablet’s image).
LUDOVICUS XIIII. REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS - REGIA ARCHITECTONICES ACADEMIA INSTITUTA..
The Académie royale d’architecture (Royal Academy of Architecture) was a French learned society founded on December 30, 1671 by Louis XIV, king of France under the impulsion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Its first director was the mathematician and engineer François Blondel (1618–1686).
Suppressed in 1793, this Académie was later merged in 1816 into the Académie des beaux-arts, together with the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648) and the Académie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669).
The Académie des beaux-arts is now one of the five Académies of the Institut de France.
French issued gold Pagoda for Southern India trade cast in Pondicherry 1705 1780
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Pagoda was a unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold minted by Indian dynasties as well as the British, the French and the Dutch.
Agnel d’or de Charles VI
Agnel d’or means “golden lamb” - the title Lamb of God (in Latin Agnus Dei) appears in the Gospel of John, with the exclamation of John the Baptist: “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” in John 1:29 when he sees Jesus
Charles VI allowed coins to be hammered in Sainte Menehould in 1392. But the industry was transfered in Châlons in 1412
Le franc à pied
After becoming king in 1364, Charles V is first depicted on a horse on the Franc, as his father did, but he soon adopted a more traditional scene : the king is standing under a tapestry, wearing an armor and the regalia, and is ornated by the fleur-de-lys
Jeton Louis XIV à l’effigie des globes de Marly / Coin depicting the globes of Marly1705BnF, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, MED AL 14
Cardinal César d’Estrées, friend and adviser to Louis XIV and ambassador to Rome, invited Coronelli to Paris in 1681 to construct a pair of globes for Louis XIV. Coronelli moved to the French capital in 1681, where he lived for two years. Each globe was composed of spindles of bent timber about ten feet long and four inches broad at the equator. This wood was then coated with a layer of plaster about an inch thick and covered in a layer of strong unfinished fabric. This was then wrapped in a quarter-inch layer of two very fine fabrics which provided backing for the painted information of the globes. These globes are measuring 384cm in diameterand weighing approximately 2 tons.
Louis d’or - Louis XIII
The Louis d’or is any number of French coins first introduced by Louis XIII in 1640. The name derives from the depiction of the portrait of King Louis on one side of the coin; the French royal coat of arms is on the reverse. The coin was replaced by the French franc at the time of the revolution, although a limited number were also minted during the “Bourbon Restoration” under Louis XVIII. The actual value of the coins fluctuated according to monetary and fiscal policy (see livre tournois), but in 1726 the value was stabilized.
