Token - L'Histoire de France Prise de la Bastille

Token - L'Histoire de France (Prise de la Bastille) - obverseToken - L'Histoire de France (Prise de la Bastille) - reverse

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Features

Location France
Type Souvenir medals › Commemorative souvenir
Year 1983
Composition Silver
Weight 1.73 g
Diameter 13 mm
Thickness 1.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
200371

Obverse

Scene from the Bastille siege of July 14, 1789, where a crowd of soldiers and armed citizens lay siege to the fortress. French Revolution.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
LE PEUPLE DE PARIS PREND LA BASTILLE
14 JUILLET 1789

Reverse

Text in the center, plant crown, scroll at the bottom.
Different lozenge The Franklin Medallion (Franklin mint)Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
SYMBOLE
DE L’ARBITRAIRE.
LA BASTILLE FUT
PRISE PAR LE PEUPLE
DE PARIS QUI N’Y
TROUVA QUE
QUELQUES
PRISONNIER
LM
L’HISTOIRE de FRANCE

Edge

Smooth

Token - L'Histoire de France (Prise de la Bastille) -  obverse

© Polette (CC BY-NC-SA)

Mint

Mintmark of The Franklin Mint (LM) The Franklin Mint, Wawa, Pennsylvania, United States (1964-date)

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1983) LM

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