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France, Louis XV, fighting the Muslim pirates, 1756, Feurardent 1398
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Louis XV (1710-1774), king of France
AR - 9.11g, 28.5mm, 165°.
Medallist: Duvivier
Obv.: LVD.XV.REX. - CHRISTIANISS.
Bust, draped and laureate, r.
below small: R.FIL. (= Roettlers.Fils)
Rev.: RAPTORIBUS INGRUIT ULTRIX
A lioness falls upon 2 leopards which have seized her two cubs.
in ex. in 2 lines MARINE / 1757
Ref.: Feurardent 1398
> Published for the employees of the Ministry of the Navy
> Translation of the legend: The avenger (the fleet) pounces on the robbers
> In 1756, a French warship had captured two Algerian pirate ships off the Mediterranean coast. At the time, Algerian pirate ships were a constant threat to the French coastal settlements on the Mediterranean. On their shore excursions, they supplied themselves with goods for the domestic slave markets.
It is perhaps interesting that such depictions were used in a certain way arbitrarily on different occasions. For example, there is a very similar token which, with the same reverse with the fighting predators in the obverse, does not show the king but the French admiral La Galissonière. Although the occasion for the issue was also a sea battle, this time it was against the English and about the conquest of the fortress Bugny on Menorca (Klaupo, numismatik-cafe.at). In the description, these two coins are often confused. The descriptions of the French mints are correct.
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