1783, Sardinia, Victor Amadeus III. "Turin Science Academy" Medal. PCGS SP-53!

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1783, Sardinia, Victor Amadeus III. "Turin Science Academy" Medal. PCGS SP-53!
Mint year: 1783
Medallist: Lorenzo Lavy
References: Wurzbach 9070.
Denomination: Medal - Turin Science Academy
Condition:
Certified and graded by PCGS as SP-53!
Material: Bronze
Diameter: 49mm
Weight: 68.5gm
Obverse:
Armored bust of Victor Amadeus III right.
Legend: VICTORIVS . AMEDEVS . III . REX . SARDINIAE
Reverse:
Two female allegoric figures as the Greek dieties Veritas (with illuminated head, leaning on colmn, holding a mirror) and Abundentia (beneath two cornucopia and with a caduceus in left hand) holding hands. Latin motto above.
Legend: VERITAS . ET . VTILITAS ("
Truth and usefulness!
")
Exergue: R . SCIENT . TAVRIN . ACADEMIA / INSTAVRATA / MDCCLXXXIII
In 1757 the count Angelo Saluzzo di Monesiglio, the physician Gianfrancesco Cigna and the mathematician Luigi Lagrange (later known by his French name, Joseph-Louis Lagrange) founded a Private Society to support research and experimentation in the various areas of science. From the very beginning they were joined by other young Piedmontese scholars, and the home of Count Saluzzo, which served as the Society's headquarters, became a place where studies in mathematics, mechanics and physics flourished. Beginning in 1759, these studies were published in a journal first named Miscellanea philosophico mathematica Societatis privatae Taurinensis, today known as the Memorie della Accademia delle Scienze.
In 1760 a first attempt was made to transform the Private Society into an Academy, modelled on the French Académie des Sciences. This effort was opposed by the ministers of King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia and by the sovereign himself. But as the activities of the members went forward, and as their numbers increased, they came to involve eminent figures of the French Enlightenment, such as Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert and Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, and other authoritative scholars from Italy and abroad, including Benjamin Franklin, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Carl Linnaeus and Leonhard Euler.
In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Savoy state underwent a general process of modernisation, favoured by the progress in science that characterised the age. It was in this context that,
in 1783, King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia conferred the title of Reale Accademia delle Scienze on the Private Society.
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Victor Amadeus III
(Vittorio Amadeo Maria; 26 June 1726 – 16 October 1796) was King of Sardinia from 1773 until his death. Although he was politically conservative, he carried out numerous administrative reforms until declaring war on revolutionary France in 1792. He was the father of the last three mainline Kings of Sardinia.
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