LOUIS XVI 1774 - 1793 - Lot 220

LOUIS XVI 1774 - 1793 LUD - XVI - D - G - FR - ET NAV - REX. Anchor, mark of François Séguy. His nude bust on the left. DUVIV. On edge of arm. R/. CHRS - REGN - VINC - IMPER. Pitcher, mark Jean Jacques Biollay. Year at the end of the legend. Two rectangular with the arms of France and Navarre. Underneath, workshop letter. Flowered edge. ♦ Fr 475; Dy 1710; Gad 361 Louis d'or au buste nu 1788 La Rochelle. (7,63 g) Mirror flan. Superb. Example of the Trésor de Vendée (1993) Admiral du Chaffault's "Trésor de Vendée". Louis Charles du Chaffault de Besné was a naval officer in the service of Louis XVI. He retired to the Château de Meslay near Montaigu in the Vendée. He received a pension of 9,000 livres. In 1793, his château was looted and burned. Admiral du Chaffault was 85 when he was arrested and imprisoned in Luzançay, where he died in 1794. Before the start of the Vendée wars, he had decided to hide and bury all his wealth. Two centuries later, one of these treasures has been unearthed.