bfe_962930 - FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - LOUIS I OF CRÉCY - LOUIS II Gros compagnon au lion
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Type : Gros compagnon au lion
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Bruges, Gand ou Malines
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 3,20 g.
Coments on the condition:
Gros compagnon frappé sur un flan assez large et irrégulier présentant des éclatements. Monnaie recouverte d’une patine grise de médaillier
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LVD-OVI-C'X CO-MES. LÉGENDE EXTÉRIEURE : + BNDICTV: SIT: NOME: DNI’: NRI: I[HV: XPI], (PONCUTATION PAR TROIS POINTS SUPERPOSÉS).
Obverse description : Croix coupant la légende intérieure.
Obverse translation : (Louis, comte ; béni soit le nom de notre seigneur Jésus-Christ).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + MONETA (TRÈFLE) FLAND'.
Reverse description : Lion debout ; bordure extérieure formée de onze trèfles et d’un lion contenus dans des oves.
Reverse translation : (Monnaie de Flandre).
Historical background
FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - LOUIS I OF CRÉCY - LOUIS II
(1346-1384)
Louis de Male, son of Louis, the Count of Flanders killed at the Battle of Crécy (1346), will try to maintain a policy of strict neutrality between the King of France and that of England. In 1382, he became count of Burgundy. Without a male heir, he married his daughter Marguerite to Philippe le Hardi, son of Jean le Bon, captured with his father at the battle of Poitiers, in 1356 "Father keep to the right, father keep to the left". On the death of Louis de Male, Philippe le Hardi succeeded him, origin of the great Burgundian estate.
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