Live auction - bfe_421276 - DUCHY OF LORRAINE - CHARLES III THE GREAT DUKE Écu d’argent
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| Estimate : | 7 000 € |
| Price : | 3 500 € |
| Maximum bid : | 4 106 € |
| End of the sale : | 14 March 2017 16:17:41 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Écu d’argent
Date: 1569
Metal : silver
Diameter : 40 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 28,49 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Cet écu, frappé sur un flan large et régulier. Léger décentrage sur les deux faces. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise de médaillier. Petite faiblesse de frappe sur la couronne sommant l’écu situé en bas du revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : (CROIX DE LORRAINE) CARO+ D+ G+ CAL+ LOTHO+ BAR+ GEL+ DVX.
Obverse description : Buste barbu de Charles III à droite, cuirassé, la tête nue, avec le petit col fraisé.
Obverse translation : (Charles, par la grâce de Dieu, duc de Calabre, Lorraine, Bar et Gueldre).
Reverse
Reverse legend : 15/69.
Reverse description : Écu couronné de Lorraine dans un cercle, autour des écus couronnés de Jérusalem, d’Aragon, de Blâmont, mi-parti de Gueldre et de Flandre, de Flandre, de Hongrie et de Naples (Anjou-Sicile).
Commentary
Exemplaire frappé avec les mêmes coins de droit et de revers que celui illustré p. 638 du tome II de l’ouvrage de Dominique Flon.
Historical background
DUCHY OF LORRAINE - CHARLES III THE GREAT DUKE
(1545-1608)
Charles III (1543-1608) is the son of François Ier (1544 -1545) and Christine of Denmark, the niece of Charles V. He was born in Nancy on February 18, 1543 and died there on May 14, 1608. Succeeding his father on June 12, 1545 under the regency of his mother, he was declared of age in 1555 and married Claude de France, the daughter of Henri II, in 1560. He tried to maintain strict neutrality between France and the Empire. Deeply Catholic, he fought fiercely against Protestantism. With the accession of François II and Marie Stuart, Guise by his mother, Charles enjoys a great credit at the court of France which is maintained under Charles IX. He founded the academy of Pont-à-Mousson and decided that the year would begin on January 1 from 1580. He embellished Nancy. From 1584, he joined the Holy League in order to overthrow his brother-in-law Henri III by helping and financing his cousin the Duke of Guise. After the death of Guise, then Henri III, he supported the Duke of Mayenne and signed peace with Henri IV in 1595. Henri, son of Charles, married Catherine de Bourbon, sister of Henri IV, in 1598. Charles died in 1608 in a peaceful Lorraine.
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