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LOUIS XVI Birth of the Dauphin LOUIS XVI. KING...

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LOUIS XVI Birth of the Dauphin LOUIS XVI. KING OF FRANCE AND MAR. ANT. J. J. OF AUSTRIA QUEEN. Bust on the left of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Below, DUVIVIER. R/. MARRIAGE OF TWELVE GIRLS ENDOWED BY THE STATES OF BURGUNDY/ AT THE BIRTH OF M. THE DAUPHIN 1781. Crowned arms quartered with the arms of 1 and 4 of modern Burgundy, with the arms 2 and 3 of Burgundy old and posed on a coat. Smooth edge. ♦ Forrer.I p.686; Terisse.1 p.87 Bronze medal 1781 Paris. Benjamin Duvivier (48,10g) Ø 46 mm Very nice. Interesting medal having been struck to endow twelve young girls to be married of Perpignan on the occasion of the birth of Dauphin Louis Joseph Xavier François de France (died June 4, 1789), eldest son of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.