Type: Medal,
Emperor's Coronation
Date: (1745)
Metal: gilt
tin
Diameter:
41mm
Weight:
16.8g.
Edge: smooth
OBVERSE
Obverse
legend: FRANCISCUS PRIMUS ROM. IMP. // ABOVE: FRANKT. IV OCTO. /MDCCXLV.
Obverse
description: Francis, seated, in ceremonial dress, crowned by a woman draped in
the antique style and wearing a helmet.
REVERSE
Reverse
legend: SEMPER: TRIUMPHANS..
Reverse
description: Crowned double-headed eagle holding a sword and a scepter from one
talon, and the cruciferous globe from the other.
HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND
AUSTRIA -
Tyrol - I FRANCOIS OF LORRAINE
(1745-1765)
Francis I
(8/12/1708-18/08/1765) is the son of Leopold of Lorraine and Elisabeth
Charlotte of Orléans. He succeeded his father in the duchies of Lorraine and
Bar in 1729. In 1736, he renounced his two duchies he exchanged against the
Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1736-1765) and promised to succeed Charles VI of
Habsburg after marrying his daughter Marie-Thérèse (1736). He had a total of
sixteen children Joseph II, Leopold II and Marie-Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI.
He had to fight for five years to get the imperial title (1740-1745). Emperor,
he remained dominated by his wife and died in 1765.
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