Live auction - fwo_974945 - SCOTLAND - KINGDOM OF SCOTLAND - JOHN BALLIOL - MARY STUART Teston 1561 Édimbourg
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Live starting : Type : Teston
Date: 1561
Mint name / Town : Édimbourg
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 916 ‰
Diameter : 29,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,89 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Ce teston est frappé sur un flan large et très légèrement irrégulier. Monnaie de toute beauté pour ce rare type, le portrait de Marie Stuart est bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine grise de collection
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Monnaie provenant de la collection L-M
Obverse
Obverse legend : MARIA · DEI · GRA · SCOTORVM · REGINA · 1561.
Obverse description : Buste à gauche de Marie Stuart, couronnée, les cheveux ramenées en arrière en chignon.
Obverse translation : (Marie, par la grâce de Dieu, Reine d’Écosse).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVVM · FAC · POPVLVM · TVVM · DOMINE ·.
Reverse description : Armoiries de Marie Reine d'Écosse et Reine douairière de France, M couronné de part et d'autre.
Historical background
SCOTLAND - KINGDOM OF SCOTLAND - JOHN BALLIOL - MARY STUART
(1542-1567)
Mary Stuart (1542-1587), daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise, became Queen of Scotland at 7 days old. Raised at the court of France, she married the Dauphin, future François II. Widow of the King in 1560, she returned to Scotland. In 1565, she married Lord Darnley, father of James VI, who was assassinated two years later by her lover Bothwell, whom she married before having to abdicate in 1567. Refugee in England, she conspired against her cousin, Elizabeth. She was beheaded in 1587 at the Tower of London..
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