CONSTITUTION september 13, 1791 - september 21, 1792 - Lot 152

CONSTITUTION september 13, 1791 - september 21, 1792 UNDER THE PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE JACQUES DANTON. Banner surmounted by a Phrygian cap inscribed LIBERTAS. In exergue 1790. R/. DISTRICT DES CORDELIERS. Shield set on a base, inscribed in three lines LA LOI / ET / LE ROI, surrounded by lakes of love. In the exergue, UNION FRATERNEL. Rough edge. ♦ F 5472; Hennin189 pl. 21 Club des Cordeliers 1790 copper token (9.76 g). Superb. Annual dues to the Club des Cordeliers were 24 sols, or the daily wage of a skilled worker. Although the club's membership was typically Parisian and popular, its management was in the hands of wealthy bourgeois revolutionaries such as Georges Danton (1759-1794), who founded the club with Marat.