v44_0600 - ALSACE - TOWN OF WISSEMBOURG Rahtsgroschen

ALSACE - TOWN OF WISSEMBOURG Rahtsgroschen VF

MONNAIES 44 (2010)
Starting price : 190.00 €
Estimate : 390.00 €
Realised price : 190.00 €

Type : Rahtsgroschen

Date: 1627

Mint name / Town : Wissembourg

Metal : silver

Diameter : 24 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 2,11 g.

Coments on the condition:

Cette monnaie est frappé sur un flan régulier et est décentré au droit comme au revers. De petites craquelures au droit comme au revers. Exemplaire recouvert d’une légère patine grise

Catalogue references :

Bd.1422 - EL.n° 34 p. 242

Obverse

Obverse legend : (ROSE) CIVIT. WEISSENBVRG. AM. RHEIN:.

Obverse description : Château sommé de deux tours.

Obverse translation : (Cité de Wissembourg sur le Rhin).

Reverse

Reverse legend : (ROSE) FERDINAND. II. ROM[.] IMP. SE. AVG:.

Reverse description : .(fleuron). / RAHTS / GELT / .1627., en quatre lignes dans le champ.

Reverse translation : (Ferdinand II, empereur de Rome, toujours auguste).

Historical background

ALSACE - TOWN OF WISSEMBOURG

(Seventeenth century)

The origin of Wissembourg dates back to the establishment of a Benedictine abbey in the 7th century. The abbey justified its monetary rights with a certainly apocryphal diploma from Dagobert (624). It obtained in 1275 from Rodolphe de Habsbourg a confirmation of its monetary right which was renewed in 1339, 1348 and 1356. In 1448, the city succeeded in obtaining from the emperor the postage of the authority of the abbots but it did not strike coin that during the first half of the 17th century.

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