v37_0998 - FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - LOUIS I OF CRÉCY - LOUIS II Gros compagnon au lion
MONNAIES 37 (2009)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
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Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Gros compagnon au lion
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Bruges, Gand ou Malines
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 3,66 g.
Coments on the condition:
Ce gros est frappé sur un flan assez large et légèrement irrégulier. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise présentant des reliefs plus nets au droit qu’au revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection Laurent
Obverse
Obverse legend : LVD/OVI/C'XCO/MES. LÉGENDE EXTÉRIEURE : + BNDICTV: SIT: NOME: DNI’: NRI’: IH-V: XPI.
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 passant à gauche. 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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