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Louis XVI - Death of Louis XVI
| Location | France |
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| Year | 1793 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Laureate bust of Louis XVI facing right in high relief, with flowing hair and lace cravat. A circular legend surrounds the effigy, and engraver's initials appear in the lower exergue below the truncation. |
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| Obverse lettering | LOUIS XVI ROI DE FR. IMMOLE PAR LES FACTIEUX |
| Reverse description | A draped mourning female figure, personifying France or Grief, leans sorrowfully over a funerary shield inscribed LOUIS XVI, with broken fasces and other emblems of fallen authority scattered in the foreground. Storm clouds fill the upper field, and the date and legend are inscribed in the exergue and around the upper rim. |
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