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Hey Today is Bastille Day, lets see some French Stuff

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  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Honors flysis Income beezis Onches nobis Inob keesis

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  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is a cool medal, I take it that is "La Marseillaise" on the back?

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  • determineddetermined Posts: 771 ✭✭✭

    1790 Bronze Confédération des Francais by Gatteaux.
    Nicolas Marie Gatteaux had been a royal engraver since 1781.
    41mm 31.35gm

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    GoldenEyeNumismatics wrote about this medal here:

    "On July 14, 1790, one year after the fall of the Bastille, many Frenchmen gathered at Champ de Mars in Paris to celebrate their national unity and the achievements of the past year. The first Constitution of France was ratified that day. Venerating these events, Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux produced a medal that “has strained the resources of symbol and allegory almost to the breaking point.” The medal is incredibly nationalistic, and embodies an extremely broad range of the ideals of the Revolution.

    It depicts Liberty grasping an opened book, representing the Constitution, with one hand, while her other hand clutches a flagpole, whose flag bears the image of joined hands to symbolize unity and the concept of Rousseau’s social contract between the people and the government. Adorning the top of the flagpole is a liberty cap, a general symbol of the revolution. She is leaning over an altar bearing the words “A La Patrie” (“With the Fatherland”), signifying Liberty’s significance in the French nation and general nationalism. On the opposing side of the altar, the feminine figure of France if shown, with her arm outstretched and its hand pressed against the Constitution which Liberty holds. Her other arm grasps the top of a fasces, symbolic for unity and strength, onto which she leans. Beside Liberty is the seated female personification of public joy, presenting a cornucopia alongside her thigh. The cornucopia is a symbol for bounty and plenty. In one arm she clutches a caduceus, representing peace and commerce.

    Flying in the sky above these figures is Truth, portrayed as a bare chested woman. She is shown clearing away the “clouds of error,” allowing light to flow down onto the Constitution. In the highest portion of the medal’s periphery, the Leo zodiac sign is shown, expressing the leadership and courage of all figures shown in the medal."

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  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,268 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I just like the design on this coin:

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    France 20 Francs 1912 (Restrike)

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  • ormandhormandh Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭


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    That is a cool one I have never seen before! Thank you for sharing. -Dan
  • determineddetermined Posts: 771 ✭✭✭

    1849-A 1 Franc MS65 PCGS

    Gotta post a Ceres Head. I think it's one of the most beautiful coins that France ever made.
    Unfortunately the underlying luster doesn't show in these photos.


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  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I take it that is "La Marseillaise" on the back?

    Yes, indeed. I had ordered a similarly themed medal from Belgium some time ago, but the vendor got cheap with the packaging. It ripped in transit and the medal apparently fell out of the envelope. Meanwhile, another medal that I ordered, which was nowhere near as interesting, survived the transit.
    Honors flysis Income beezis Onches nobis Inob keesis

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  • Sorry for the horrible quality, all I have is a Kodak EasyShare and natural light. image

    1789 Amis de la Paix Medal
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    "YOU SUCK!" Awarded by nankraut/renomedphys 6/13/13 - MadMarty dissents
  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Theres some really sweet stuff here, Thanx All

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  • ZoharZohar Posts: 6,676 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very sad with another Muslim Terrorist attack in Nice on this festive day. 73 dead and counting with multiple attacks on French soil in the past couple of years.
  • NapNap Posts: 1,755 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Going back a while, here is a Merovingian Frankish tremissis of Charibert II, king of Aquitaine 629-632

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  • ShadyDaveShadyDave Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Zohar

    Very sad with another Muslim Terrorist attack in Nice on this festive day. 73 dead and counting with multiple attacks on French soil in the past couple of years.




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    I'm sad but not surprised for the innocent blood that has been shed yet again. This seems more and more like the normal these days. I'm disgusted that "people" think terrorist acts will further their cause, whether they occur against: police, kids, a particular religion or country. I know it is just words over the internet, but my condolences to the people affected by this act of cowardice.
  • jgennjgenn Posts: 760 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Zohar

    Very sad with another Muslim Terrorist attack in Nice on this festive day. 73 dead and counting with multiple attacks on French soil in the past couple of years.




    My heart goes out to the French -- Liberté, égalité, fraternité !!!



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  • StorkStork Posts: 5,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This medal is called "L'Oeuvre des Barbares", Work of the Barbarians. image



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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,804 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sadly appropriate, Cathy. image



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  • marcmoishmarcmoish Posts: 6,631 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I'm sad but not surprised for the innocent blood that has been shed yet again. This seems more and more like the normal these days. I'm disgusted that "people" think terrorist acts will further their cause, whether they occur against: police, kids, a particular religion or country. I know it is just words over the internet, but my condolences to the people affected by this act of cowardice.


    agreed, and shame on Europe for castigating Israel for trying to protect themselves from all this mayhem for years now!
  • garrynotgarrynot Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: ShadyDave

    Originally posted by: Zohar

    Very sad with another Muslim Terrorist attack in Nice on this festive day. 73 dead and counting with multiple attacks on French soil in the past couple of years.




    +1



    I'm sad but not surprised for the innocent blood that has been shed yet again. This seems more and more like the normal these days. I'm disgusted that "people" think terrorist acts will further their cause, whether they occur against: police, kids, a particular religion or country. I know it is just words over the internet, but my condolences to the people affected by this act of cowardice.




    +1
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