Silver, Dalmatia/Ragusa, 1 Libertina, 1794

Silver, Dalmatia/Ragusa, 1 Libertina, 1794= 2 Ducats

Dalmatia is today Croatia. Ragusa, a republic for over 500 years until conquered by Napoleon in 1803, is today Dubrovnik.

Libertina after Libertas, a major goal of the French Revolution which was in full swing. Unlike the French Revolutionaries, the devout Roman Catholics of Ragusa kept God in the picture-see

Reverse below.

Obverse, Republic of Ragusa over a profile of the somewhat enlightened, devout Catholic Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, 1740-1780, whose 16 children included Marie Antoinette, murdered by the French Revolutionaries.

Reverse, Libertas under God, Faith and Justice.

Images, 20 secs each

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