Live auction - fwo_942320 - ENGLAND - KINGDOM OF ENGLAND - EDWARD III Quart de noble d’or n.d. Londres

ENGLAND - KINGDOM OF ENGLAND - EDWARD III Quart de noble d’or n.d. Londres AU

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Starting price :	600 €
Estimate :	1 200 €
Price :	720 €
Maximum bid :	725 €
End of the sale :	24 September 2024 18:56:31
bidders :	3 bidders

Type : Quart de noble d’or

Date: (1361-1369)

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Londres

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 979 ‰

Diameter : 20,12 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 1,86 g.

Edge : lisse

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire frappé sur un flan légèrement irrégulier présentant des reliefs plutôt nets

Catalogue references :

Sp.1511

Obverse

Obverse legend : +° EDWARDX DEIX GRAX REXX ANGL, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX SAUTOIRS SUPERPOSÉS).

Obverse description : Écu écartelé aux 1 et 4 de France, aux 2 et 3 d’Angleterre.

Obverse translation : (Édouard, par la grâce de Dieu, roi d’Angleterre).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + EXALTABITVRX INX GLORIAX.

Reverse description : Croix feuillue et fleurdelisée portant en cœur un quadrilobe anglé contenant un annelet, cantonnée de quatre léopards couronnés ; le tout dans un double octolobe cantonné de huit petits trèfles.

Reverse translation : (Il sera exalté dans la gloire).

Historical background

ENGLAND - KINGDOM OF ENGLAND - EDWARD III

(1327-1377)

Edward (1312-1377), eldest son of Edward II and Isabella of France, follows his mother when she rebels against her husband. When Edward II is overthrown, Edward III, who had already been Duke of Aquitaine since 1317, becomes King of England. He marries Philippa de Hainaut (+1369), the daughter of the count of Hainaut, Guillaume. After the death of Charles IV le Bel, his cousin, he paid homage to Philippe VI de Valois for Aquitaine. In 1330, in England, he executed Mortimer, his minister and his mother's lover. He forces his mother to retire (+1358). Pushed by his cousin Robert d'Artois, he broke the homage for Aquitaine. The Hundred Years' War began in 1337. The French were beaten at Écluse in 1340, then at Crécy in 1346. He took Calais after a long siege (the famous bourgeois). England was hit by the Great Plague in 1348. After the death of Philip VI, he continued the fight against John II, defeated him at Poitiers and took him prisoner. Edward, the Black Prince, became Prince of Aquitaine in 1362.