Live auction - bfe_413567 - FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - LOUIS OF MALE Franc à cheval
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| Estimate : | 18 000 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 13 December 2016 17:03:55 |
Type : Franc à cheval
Date: c. 1361-1364
Mint name / Town : Gand
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 3,83 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Ce franc est frappé sur un flan large, légèrement irrégulier et légèrement voilé. Faiblesse de frappe sur le bras gauche de la croix du revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LVDOVIC': DEI - GRA: COMES: Z - DNS: IMPATORIE, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX ANNELETS SUPERPOSÉS).
Obverse description : Louis de Male à cheval galopant à gauche, l'épée haute, coiffé d'un heaume sommé d'un lion, portant par dessus sa cotte de mailles une cotte d'armes au lion ; le caparaçon du cheval porte deux lions.
Obverse translation : (Louis, par la grâce de Dieu, comte et seigneur et empereur).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + XPCX VINCITX XPCX REGNATX XPCX INPERAT, (N RÉTROGRADES, PONCTUATION PAR DEUX SAUTOIRS SUPERPOSÉS).
Reverse description : Croix feuillue avec quadrilobe en cœur dans un quadrilobe anglé et orné de palmettes, cantonnée de quatre trèfles évidés.
Reverse translation : (Le Christ vainc, le Christ règne, le Christ commande).
Commentary
Monnaie particulièrement rare avec IMPATORIE en fin de légende du droit. L’exemplaire n° 147 de la vente 390 de Peus a réalisé 16.000 euros. Paul Lucas classe ce franc à cheval parmi les imitations de Louis de Male, sans en préciser l’origine.
Historical background
FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - LOUIS OF MALE
(1346-1384)
Louis de Male (1330-1384) is the son of Louis, Count of Flanders, killed at the Battle of Crécy (1346). He 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, who succeeded him, was at the origin of the great Burgundian estate. Louis de Male was also Count of Rethel.
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