v12_0077 - HEIR APPARENT, CHARLES, REGENCY - COINAGE IN THE NAME OF CHARLES VI Gros dit "florette" 20/05/1420 Poitiers

HEIR APPARENT, CHARLES, REGENCY - COINAGE IN THE NAME OF CHARLES VI Gros dit florette 20/05/1420 Poitiers XF

MONNAIES 12 (2001)
Starting price : 83.85 €
Estimate : 129.58 €
unsold lot

Type : Gros dit "florette"

Date: 20/05/1420

Mint name / Town : Poitiers

Metal : billon

Millesimal fineness : 199 ‰

Diameter : 25,5 mm

Orientation dies : 2 h.

Weight : 2,37 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Ce gros est frappé sur un flan irrégulier et présente une patine grise de collection. En dépit de petites faiblesses de frappe très localisées, les reliefs sont nets sur les deux faces

Catalogue references :

C.538 - L.431e - Dy.417I

Predigree :

Exemplaire provenant de MONNAIES V, n° 972

Obverse

Obverse legend : + KAROLVS: FRANCORV: REX, (PONCTUATION PAR TROIS BESANTS SUPERPOSÉS, O LONGS).

Obverse description : Trois lis posés 2 et 1 sous une couronne fleurdelisée.

Obverse translation : (Charles, roi des Francs).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + SIT: NOME: DNI: BEHEDICTV, (PONCTUATION PAR TROIS BESANTS SUPERPOSÉS, O LONG).

Reverse description : Croix fleurdelisée cantonnée aux 2 et 3 d’une couronnelle.

Reverse translation : (Béni soit le nom du Seigneur).

Historical background

HEIR APPARENT, CHARLES, REGENCY - COINAGE IN THE NAME OF CHARLES VI

(26/10/1418-20/10/1422)

Charles, born in 1403, is the fifth son of Charles VI and Isabella of Bavaria. He is declared dauphin after the death of his other brothers. On June 14, 1417, Charles VI appointed him lieutenant of the kingdom. After the capture of Paris on May 29, 1418, he moved to Bourges and was appointed regent on October 26, 1418. He created his Chamber of Accounts, a Court of coins in Bourges and a Parliament in Poitiers. He is recognized by all the south of France and helped by the Armagnac family. He had his cousin the Duke of Burgundy assassinated on September 10, 1419, did not recognize the validity of the Treaty of Troyes in 1420 and continued the fight against Henry V. He died on August 31, 1422 and Charles VI on October 21. The dolphin, who has just married Marie d'Anjou, the daughter of Louis II of Naples, finds himself facing an eleven-month-old child under the regency of his uncle, the Duke of Bedford. The struggle will last another thirty years between Charles VII and Henry VI of Lancaster.

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