E-auction 616-600532 - CHAMBRES DES COMPTES / ACCOUNTS CHAMBERS CHAMBRE DES COMPTES DU ROI n.d.
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Type : CHAMBRE DES COMPTES DU ROI
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Paris
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 26,00 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 2,40 g.
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire avec une légère patine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + GETES : ENTEDES : AV : COPTE : SIGNE ; PONCTUATION PAR TROIS POINTS SUPERPOSÉS.
Obverse description : Écu carré, à quatre fleurs de lis et cantonné de quatre tiercefeuilles.
Reverse
Reverse legend : + VRS : DE LA CHABRE : DES : COPTES ; PONCTUATION PAR TROIS POINTS SUPERPOSÉS.
Reverse description : Croix fleurdelisée, dans un quadrilobe fleurdelisé cantonné de quatre tiercefeuilles.
Commentary
Le terme seigneurs ne désigne pas les officiers de la chambre ; il doit être pris ici au sens large de Messeigneurs pour désigner les clercs comptables et le personnel ordinaire, ce que le décor " banalisé " confirme. Jeton de la chambre des comptes du Roi, à Paris. Jeton exécuté par un graveur de l’atelier monétaire de Tournai. Le conseil adressé aux “Seigneurs de la chambre des comptes” situe clairement ce jeton qui peut être daté, compte tenu de son style, vers le milieu du XVe siècle. C’est l’écu carré de l’avers que l’on retrouve imité sur les séries banalisées des jetons de Tournai, ainsi que les tiercefeuilles. Ces motifs seront imités un peu plus tard à Nuremberg. Ce jeton serait ainsi le modèle des séries tournaisiennes ultérieures.
Historical background
CHAMBRES DES COMPTES / ACCOUNTS CHAMBERS
Like the King's Council, the Chamber of Accounts is a dismemberment of the former king's court, in the part responsible for overseeing the royal domain, the handling of finances and the verification of the accounts of the king's agents. His role was to register edicts and declarations concerning the estate, letters of ennoblement, naturalization, pensions, etc.. It also recorded marriage contracts of the royal family, peace treaties. The Chamber of Accounts had civil and criminal jurisdiction over its own officers and over offenses committed within its premises near the Sainte-Chapelle. It extended its jurisdiction to the whole kingdom in certain areas (war, navy, colonies, royal treasury, bridges and roads, etc.. ) but the Provincial Chambers of Accounts withdrew from its jurisdiction certain accounts. The Chamber of Accounts boasted of being the oldest in the kingdom, before Parliament. Its officers enjoyed important privileges: nobility, title of king's advisers, franc-salé, tax exemptions, corvées, etc.. Many regions, cities and administrations had their own Chamber of Accounts, and tokens were issued in large numbers, above all to be used for accounts..
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