v37_1069 - ITALY - FLORENCE - REPUBLIC Florin d'or n.d. Florence

ITALY - FLORENCE - REPUBLIC Florin d or n.d. Florence XF

MONNAIES 37 (2009)
Starting price : 700.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
unsold lot

Type : Florin d'or

Date: (1322)

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Florence

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 986 ‰

Diameter : 20 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 3,46 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Ce florin est frappé sur un flan voilé et irrégulier. Trace d’un petit choc sous le E de IOHANNES

Catalogue references :

DM.864 - F.275 - CNI/XII.n° 169 p. 28 - Biaggin° 787

Obverse

Obverse legend : + FLOR-ENTIA.

Obverse description : Grande fleur de lis épanouie.

Obverse translation : (Florence).

Reverse

Reverse legend : .S. IOHA-NNES. B (MM).

Reverse description : Saint Jean Baptiste debout de face, nimbé, barbu, vêtu de la peau de mouton, tendant la main droite et tenant un sceptre cruciforme bouleté.

Reverse translation : (Saint Jean-Baptiste).

Historical background

ITALY - FLORENCE - REPUBLIC

(1189-1531)

Florence and Genoa were in 1252 the first two Italian cities to strike gold again in the West. Previously, Frederick II of Hohenstaufen (1197-1250) had minted, in Sicily and southern Italy, tari d'or and especially augustales and demi-augustales. The fiorino d'or and the genevino d'oro, which were practically pure gold (23 2/3 carats), had a theoretical weight of 3.50 g and very quickly became the coins used for international exchanges. The Florence florin ran for 10 soldi. In 1284, Venice created the sequin which weighed the same weight and had the same title. The first French gold coin, the écu d'or de Saint-Louis, created in 1266, was inspired by the florin of Florence although heavier (c. 4.00 g).

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