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Live auction - fwo_382579 - GERMANY - GRAND DUCHY OF HESSE - ERNEST-LOUIS 5 Mark 1904 Berlin
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Estimate : | 220 € |
Price : | 120 € |
Maximum bid : | 120 € |
End of the sale : | 01 March 2016 17:48:51 |
bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : 5 Mark
Date: 1904
Mint name / Town : Berlin
Quantity minted : 40000
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 38 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 27,82 g.
Edge : striée
Coments on the condition:
L’exemplaire est recouvert d’une patine gris sombre
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Docteur Frédéric Nordmann
Obverse
Obverse legend : ERNST LUDWIG. GROSSHERZOG. V. HESSEN. U. B. R. - PHILIPP. LANDGRAF. Z. HESSEN. / VERBUM. ONI. MANET. - IN. AETERNUM. 13. NOV./ 1504. 1904.
Obverse description : Bustes accolés à gauche de Philippe I Langrave de Hesse et Ernest-Louis de Hesse-Darmstadt.
Reverse
Reverse legend : DEUTSCHES REICH 1904 * FÜNF MARK.
Reverse description : Aigle impérial couronné, timbré d'un écu orné d'un aigle, entouré du collier de l'ordre allemand.
Reverse translation : (Empire allemand, cinq mark).
Commentary
Cette pièce commémore le 400e anniversaire de la naissance de Philippe Ier de Hesse survenue le 13 Novembre 1504. Il existe également une pièce de 2 Mark au même type.
Historical background
GERMANY - GRAND DUCHY OF HESSE - ERNEST-LOUIS
(03/13/1892-11/10/1918)
Ernest-Louis (25/11/1866-9/10/1937) is the son of Louis IV of Hesse and Alice of Saxe-Coburg. He is the grandson of Victoria I of England and the brother of Alix, the wife of Nicolas II. He married in 1894 Victoria-Mélita, the daughter of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, whom he divorced in 1901 and in second marriage Éléonore de Solms. He abdicated in 1918. After his death in 1937, his whole family was killed in a plane crash.
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