Token - Lycée des Arts

Token - Lycée des Arts - obverseToken - Lycée des Arts - reverse

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Features

Location France
Period First Republic (1792-1804)
Type Award medals › Scholastic or academic award
Year 1792
Currency France - Academic and Scientific Tokens
Composition Silver (.950)
Weight 8.3 g
Diameter 28.5 mm
Thickness 1.5 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Number
N#
265018
References Feu# 4473
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.

Commemorative issue

Creation of the Lycée des ArtsAutomatically translated

Obverse

Schoolboy Apollo, full-length, nude, holding a bow in his left hand, next to a laurel trunk around which a snake is coiled.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
LYCÉE DES ARTS
1792

Engraver: Augustin Dupré

Reverse

Inscribed on two lines within a wreath made of a laurel branch and an oak branch.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering: AUX ARTS

Edge

CrenellatedAutomatically translated

Comments

Issu du musée créé par Pilâtre de Rosier, pour l'étude des sciences physiques, le Lycée des Arts fut réorganisé en 1792 pour l'enseignement des sciences et des arts au sens large.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1792 

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