Live auction - fme_931542 - HUNGARY - TRANSYLVANIA - MARIA-THERESA Médaille, Hommage à la Transylvanie

HUNGARY - TRANSYLVANIA - MARIA-THERESA Médaille, Hommage à la Transylvanie XF

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Starting price :	400 €
Estimate :	800 €
Price :	720 €
Maximum bid :	1 200 €
End of the sale :	24 September 2024 18:48:55
bidders :	2 bidders

Type : Médaille, Hommage à la Transylvanie

Date: 1741

Metal : silver

Diameter : 50 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 50,87 g.

Edge : lisse

Puncheon : sans poinçon

Coments on the condition:

Patine grise sombre hétérogène, présentant des coups et rayures sur la tranche. De l’usure sur les reliefs

Obverse

Obverse legend : REGNANTI MARIAE THERESIAE VT PRINCIPI - SVAE VOTIS SE IVRATI OBSTRINXERE DACI.

Obverse description : Blason de Transylvanie sur un cuir sous un dais couronné. Inscription sur la coquille à l’exergue : INV. L. B..IOLAZ. DEGYAL. T. R. I. AS.

Reverse

Reverse legend : COELO NUMEN HABES. TERRAS REGINA TUETUR. SIC COELO ET TERRIS HUNGARE TUTUS ERIS // SUR LE FRONTON : SUB CRUCE IAM GEMINA GEMINA EST PATRONA MARIA // SUR LE RUBAN À L’EXERGUE : NEC SAEVOS METUENT / ARMENTA LEONES .

Reverse description : Porte richement décorée sommée d’une croix à double barre rayonnante, avec la Vierge à l’enfant à gauche et l’impératrice agenouillée à droite, sous l’oeil ouvert de Dieu au milieu de nuages. Dans l’ouverture de la porte, on distingue les animaux des quatre évangélistes et un dome au loin.

Historical background

HUNGARY - TRANSYLVANIA - MARIA-THERESA

(1740-1780)

Marie Thérèse (1638-1683) is the daughter of Philippe IV of Spain and Elisabeth of France, the daughter of Henri IV and Marie de Médicis. She was born in 1638, like her cousin the King, to whom she was engaged following the Treaty of the Pyrenees of November 7, 1659. She married him on June 9, 1660 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz and had six children , of which only one survived, Louis, the Grand Dauphin (1661-1711). She died on July 30, 1683. Louis XIV secretly remarried in second marriage with the Marquise de Maintenon in 1683 (1638-1719).