v11_2223 - GERMANY - GRAND DUCHY OF HESSE - ERNEST-LOUIS 5 marks 1899 Berlin
MONNAIES 11 (2002)
Starting price : 335.39 €
Estimate : 533.57 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 335.39 €
Estimate : 533.57 €
unsold lot
Type : 5 marks
Date: 1899
Mint name / Town : Berlin
Quantity minted : 4475
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 38 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 27,66 g.
Edge : inscrite en creux GOTT MIT UNS (Dieu avec nous)
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Importantes marques de manipulation dans le champ au droit et au revers. Exemplaire convenable
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ERNST LUDWIG GROSSHERZOG VON HESSEN.
Obverse description : Tête nue d'Ernest-Louis à gauche ; au-dessous, A.
Obverse translation : (Ernest-Louis grand-duc de Hesse).
Reverse
Reverse legend : DEUTSCHES - REICH 1899/ * FÜNF MARK *.
Reverse description : Aigle impérialecouronnée, timbrée d'un écu orné d'une aigle, entouré du collier de l'ordre allemand.
Reverse translation : (Empire allemand).
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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