E-auction 585-542482 - CHARLES QUINT - EMPEROR OF THE HOLY EMPIRE Médaille, Sceau de Charles Quint, n°199
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Type : Médaille, Sceau de Charles Quint, n°199
Date: 1987
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Quantity minted : 500
Metal : copper
Diameter : 126 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1301,11 g.
Edge : lisse + corne CU + 1987 + N°199/500
Puncheon : corne CUIVRE
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire conservé dans son carton marron. Présence d’usure sur les reliefs. Traces de manipulation
Obverse
Obverse legend : KAROLVS ROMANOR IPERATOR REX HISPAVIRIVS Q. CICILARCHA DVX BVRG.
Obverse description : Empereur du Saint Empire Germanique, assis sous un dais gothique, tenant couronne, épée et globe, accosté des colonnes d’Hercule portant les blasons d’Espagne et d’Autriche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : CES - CAR.
Reverse description : Aigle bicéphale couronné, un écu couronné posé.
Reverse translation : César Carolus.
Commentary
Héritier de plusieurs grandes dynasties européennes, Charles Quint devient en particulier duc de Bourgogne en 1506, roi d’Espagne et de Sicile en 1516, puis empereur du Saint-Empire romain germanique en 1519. .
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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