Robespierre’s Fall Medal – in memory of the victims of the Terror
In silver metal
Weight: 9.5 g
Dimensions: 26.3 x 32 mm
Obverse:
Gendarme Charles-André Merda shooting Robespierre , a guillotine in the background.
Inscription: 9 Thermidor MERDA
ROBESPIERRE
Reverse:
A palm and the inscription:
a la Memoire
des Victimes de la Terreur
Inscription on eight lines:
GRATA
DIES PATRIÆ
VIVAT, NAM
DIGNA TYRANNO
TERRORIQUE
SIMUL, FUNERA
MERDA
DEDIT.
