FRANCE Medal 1649 Louis XIV. The favouring Minerva (Flanders Campaign). AU+

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1649, Royal France, Louis XIV. The favouring Minerva (Flanders Campaign). Bronze Medal.

Mint Year: 1649
Medallist: Mauger / DuVivier
Condition: Minor deposits and contact-marks, otherwise AU+
Denomination: Medal - The favouring Minerva / Flanders Campaign.
Weight: 35.84gm
Material: Bronze
Diameter: 42mm


Obverse: Armored and draped bust of Louix XIV "the Great" right. Medallist´s signature (MAVGER . F) below bust truncation.
Legend: LVDOVICUS XIIII REX CHRISTIANISS .

Reverse: Classical scene of the favouring Minerva, flanked by two fallen shields, holding scepter in lright hand and a small statue of victory in right.
Legend: MINERVA FAUTRIX . ("The favouring Minerva")
Exergue: RES IN BELGIO GESTAE . M . DC . XLIX .







Louis XIV (5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre. He ascended the throne a few months before his fifth birthday, but did not assume actual personal control of the government until the death of his prime minister (Premier ministre), the Italian Jules Cardinal Mazarin, in 1661. Louis remained on the throne until his death in September 1715, four days before his seventy-seventh birthday. His reign lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days, the longest documented for any European monarch to date.

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