Token - Louis XIV - États de Bourgogne - L’espoir de paix

Features

Location France
King Louis XIV (1643-1715)
Type Commemorative medals › Institution medal
Year 1645
Composition Copper
Weight 7.20 g
Diameter 30 mm
Thickness 1 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
146097
References Feu# 9791
Félix-Bienaimé Feuardent; 1904. Jetons et méreaux depuis Louis IX jusqu'à la fin du Consulat de Bonaparte / Tome 1. Grandes administrations de l'état de la ville de Paris; corporations, etc.; noblesse et villes de l'Ile-de-France. Rollin et Feuardent, Paris, France.
And 3 more volumes.

Obverse

Arms of Burgundy in a crown formed of two branches of laurel.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering: COMITIA - BVRGVNDIÆ

Unabridged legend: Comitia Burgundiae.

Translation: "Les États de Bourgogne".

Reverse

Female allegory of Burgundy, trampling on arms, holding a caduceus in her right hand and an olive branch in her left; date in exergue.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
• SPES • VNA ✿ ⚜ ✿ SALVTIS •
• 1645 •

Unabridged legend: Spes una salutis.

Edge

Plain.

Comments

In 1644-1645, military victories and the start of the new reign gave hope for better times with the return of peace.

Fontenay, Manuel de l'amateur de jetons, 1854
"The States of Burgundy voted on taxes, aids and subsidies. The province regulated its economic administration in general assemblies, and after the sessions, the execution of votes belonged to general Elected Officials taken from all ranks of society, whose conduct was censured at each triennium by special, independent commissioners. The Elected Officials apportioned taxes, and for this purpose appointed all their officers by right, ordered public construction and repairs to major roads, regulated the raising and spending of militias, liquidated milestones, awarded grants on the Saône, and held in their hands the important management of salt floods, which could not be brought into Burgundy without their approval. Inhabitants were not prosecuted outside their jurisdiction. The States had the right to reimburse from their finances any office charged to the country; the king could not create new offices without the consent of the province, and even less could he dispose of the province without its consent. (...) A few words will suffice to give an idea of the organization of the States of Burgundy. They were made up of the three social positions or Orders of society: the Clergy, the Nobility and the Third Estate. The first represented wisdom, enlightenment and goodness; the second, strength, glory and grandeur; the third, industry, commerce and agriculture. Nothing could be fairer or more complete. The numerical inequality of the three Orders disappeared at the moment of voting: at the solemn moment of decision, there were only three votes; and the vote of the Tiers, which would have been insignificant if counted by heads, had the power to tip the balance in the direction it wanted. The representation of powers was completed by the presence at the States of the envoys of Mgr le Duc, and later of those of His Majesty. The mission of the former was to watch over the interests of the ducal crown in a very special way, and to edify it on everything that was happening in the administration of finances. Under the monarchical regime, the king still relied on the Parlement, whose president spoke at the opening of the Estates to support the crown's demands; he also had the intendant and governor of the province, and the Chambre des Comptes, whose Masters were more accustomed to handling tokens than anyone else. After a one-month session, the general assembly left a small assembly or Chambre des Élus généraux to administer the country for three years, made up, like itself, of interested parties, i.e. belonging to the three Orders. The King's Elected Official, two deputies from the Chambre des Comptes, the Treasurer General and the Intendant of the Province were entitled to attend on behalf of the Crown, as were the two Secretaries of the Estates, but without the right to vote. The Elected Representative of the Nobility was the only elective member; those of the Clergy and the Third Estate alternated between the two. The Church provided a bishop, an abbot and a provincial dean in turn. The representative of the Tiers-État was successively a mayor of one of the fourteen towns listed on the great wheel; and by privilege, this Order still had its native president, the mayor of Dijon. The smaller towns, as well as the canons and priors, were not deprived of their share of power, for it was from their ranks that most of the Alcades were recruited. The Alcades formed a council of censors, which also sought out useful proposals for the country and oversaw the operations of the Ferris wheel. They formed a supreme council to protect the province against error, negligence, ill will or ambition on the part of its administrators. In short, the big council was judged by the little one".Automatically translated

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1645 

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