Live auction - fwo_419861 - GERMANY - GRAND DUCHY OF HESSE - ERNEST-LOUIS 5 Mark 1900 Berlin
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| Estimate : | 400 € |
| Price : | 200 € |
| Maximum bid : | 230 € |
| End of the sale : | 31 January 2017 16:36:11 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : 5 Mark
Date: 1900
Mint name / Town : Berlin
Quantity minted : 17900
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 38 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 27,69 g.
Edge : striée
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
La monnaie a été nettoyée puis s’est patinée
Obverse
Obverse legend : ERNST LUDWIG GROSSHERZOG VON HESSEN / A..
Obverse description : Tête à gauche d’Ernest-Louis de Hesse-Darmstadt.
Reverse
Reverse legend : DEUTSCHES REICH 1900 * FÜNF MARK*.
Reverse description : Aigle impérial couronné, timbré d'un écu orné d'un aigle, entouré du collier de l'ordre allemand.
Reverse translation : (Empire allemand, cinq mark).
Historical background
GERMANY - GRAND DUCHY OF HESSE - ERNEST-LOUIS
(03/13/1892-11/10/1918)
Ernest-Louis (25/11/1866-9/10/1937) is the son of Louis IV of Hesse and Alice of Saxe-Coburg. He is the grandson of Victoria I of England and the brother of Alix, the wife of Nicolas II. He married in 1894 Victoria-Mélita, the daughter of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, whom he divorced in 1901 and in second marriage Éléonore de Solms. He abdicated in 1918. After his death in 1937, his whole family was killed in a plane crash.
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