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1782, Royal France. St. Alexander of Scotland Masonic Lodge. Silver Medal. Rare!

Mint Year: 1782 Condition: A nicely toned XF-AU! References: Lab.27, F.5491. Rare in Silver!  Denomination: Medal - Foundation of the St. Alexander of Scotland Masonic Lodge in East Paris Diameter: 29mm Material: Silver Weight: 7.9gm

Obverse: Eye within illuminated triange. Banner with latin inscription above. Legend: LUMEN DE LUMINE ("Light born from light!") Reverse: Divine hand protruding out of clouds to left showing right to sun rising behind a mountain. Column with two masonic symbols (circles) in left field beneath two hammers and a circle. Legend above, eight letters in exergue. Legend:  SI. FODIERIS INUENIES ("If you are looking for, you will find!") Exergue: L.E.D.S.A.D.O.D.P. (Loge Ecossaise de Saint  Alexandre, Orient de Paris - "Scottish Lodge of Saint Alexander, East of Paris.")

Constituted in 1778 under the title of Saint Charles of the Triumph of the Perfect Harmony, this Lodge is founded in 1782, at the moment when it requests from Saint John of Scotland of the Social Contract a Scottish Constitution, Saint Charles of the Triumph of the Perfect Harmony of Saint Alexander of Scotland and will later be known only under the name of St. Alexander of Scotland.

Louis XVI or Louis-Auguste de France (Versailles, 23 August 1754 – Paris, 21 January 1793) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1793. Suspended and arrested during the Insurrection of 10 August, he was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of treason, and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. He was the only king of France to be executed.

Although Louis was beloved at first, his indecisiveness and conservatism led some elements of the people of France to eventually view him as a symbol of the perceived tyranny of the Ancien Régime. After the abolition of the monarchy in 1793, the new republican government gave him the surname Capet, a reference to the nickname of Hugh Capet, founder of the Capetian dynasty, which the revolutionaries wrongly interpreted as a family name. He was also informally nicknamed Louis le Dernier (Louis the Last), a derisive use of the traditional nicknaming of French kings. Today, historians and French people in general have a more nuanced view of Louis XVI, who is seen as an honest man with good intentions, but who was probably unfit for the herculean task of reforming the monarchy, and who was used as a scapegoat by the revolutionaries.

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