Live auction - fjt_587966 - CHARLES QUINT - EMPEROR OF THE HOLY EMPIRE Poids monétaire pour le demi-impériale de Flandre 1615
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| Estimate : | 140 € |
| Price : | 70 € |
| Maximum bid : | 100 € |
| End of the sale : | 28 July 2020 17:55:54 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Poids monétaire pour le demi-impériale de Flandre
Date: 1615
Mint name / Town : Anvers
Metal : brass
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,52 g.
Coments on the condition:
Ce poids monétaire est frappé sur un flan assez large. Coup au-dessus du globe crucigère
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Écu l’aigle bicéphale, couronné, entouré de 3 calices.
Reverse
Reverse description : Main ouverte accostée du millésime et des lettres A C.
Commentary
Les lettres AC du revers sont celle d’André Caers, balancier d’Anvers.
Historical background
CHARLES QUINT - EMPEROR OF THE HOLY EMPIRE
1500-1558
Charles V (1500-1558), son of Philippe le Beau and Jeanne la Folle, was born in 1500 in Ghent. He successively became Count of Flanders, Duke of Brabant, then from 1516, King of Spain and the Indies, and finally, on the death of his grandfather Maximilian of Habsburg in 1519, King of the Romans before becoming elect Emperor of the Holy Empire against Francis I by having bought the largest part of the voters thanks to the banker Fugger and by having paid, unlike Francis I, after the vote.
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