bfe_976357 - AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE Léopard d'or

AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE Léopard d or AU

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Type : Léopard d'or

Date: s.d.

Mint name / Town : Atelier indéterminé

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 972 ‰

Diameter : 28,5 mm

Orientation dies : 2 h.

Weight : 3,46 g.

Rarity : R3

Slab

NGC :

Coments on the condition:

Ce léopard d’or est frappé sur un flan large, légèrement irrégulier et voilé. Reliefs nets sur les deux faces. Petit choc à 8 heures au droit

Catalogue references :

Bd.505 (60 f.) - PA.3070 (pl. 64/10) - E.39a - Elias65 - W.43B (2/a)

Predigree :

Monnaie sous coque NGC, UNS details, bent, n° 5845949-007

Obverse

Obverse legend : + ED’X PMOX GNISX REGISX ANGLIEX PNCEPSX AQITANI, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX SAUTOIRS SUPERPOSÉS).

Obverse description : Léopard couronné, à grande couronne, la tête de face passant à gauche, la patte droite levée, la queue relevée dans un polylobe, cantonné quatrefeuilles.

Reverse

Reverse legend : + XP’CX VINCITX XP’CX REGNATX XP’CX IMPERAT., (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX SAUTOIRS SUPERPOSÉS).

Reverse description : Croix fleuronnée, cantonnée de quatre léopards passant couronnés, dans un polylobe anglé, accosté de huit quadrilobes évidés.

Reverse translation : (Le Christ vainc, le Christ règne, le Christ commande).

Commentary

Ce léopard d’or, sans lettre d’atelier comme tous ceux du Prince Noir, a probablement été frappé à Bordeaux.

Historical background

AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE

(1362-1372)

Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376) was the eldest son of Edward III Plantagenet and Philippa of Hainaut. He cut his teeth at the battle of Crécy in 1346 where he was strongly impressed by the chivalrous attitude of John the Blind, King of Bohemia, who preferred to die rather than bear the dishonor of defeat. He will take as heraldic arms ostrich feathers which the King of Bohemia already wore. Edward the Black Prince is in Aquitaine in 1355 and begins a ride in Poitou the following year. He crushes the French at Poitiers and takes King Jean le Bon prisoner. By the Treaty of Brétigny in May 1360, the independence of Aquitaine was confirmed. Edward was its first prince from 1362. He arrived in Bordeaux in 1363. The war resumed with France in 1369. After the first English defeats in Aquitaine, the Black Prince returned to England in 1371 and, the following year, renounce his principality. He died in 1376. His father Edward III died the following year. It is Richard II, son of the Black Prince, who ascends the throne.

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