bfe_828718 - LORRAINE - BISHOPRIC OF METZ - ROBERT DE LENONCOURT (83th bishop) Bugne
190.00 €(Approx. 199.50$ | 157.70£)
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Type : Bugne
Date: 1552
Mint name / Town : Metz
Metal : silver
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 0,86 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Cette bugne est frappée sur un flan irrégulier et voilé. Monnaie présentant une forte usure et recouverte d’une patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : S. - STEPHA[...] MET. S[...], (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 11 HEURES).
Obverse description : Croix pattée coupant la légende, cantonnée de quatre étoiles.
Obverse translation : (Saint Étienne de Metz).
Reverse
Reverse legend : R C DE LE[NONC]OVRT 15-52.
Reverse description : Écu aux armes de Lénoncourt sous un chapeau épiscopal.
Commentary
Il existe des exemplaires aux millésimes 1551 et d’autres sans millésime.
Historical background
LORRAINE - BISHOPRIC OF METZ - ROBERT DE LENONCOURT (83th bishop)
(1551-1555)
Robert de Lenoncourt, cardinal-bishop of Metz was also count of Chalon, peer of France, archbishop of Arles and Embrun. The bugne or tertelle is mentioned in an ordinance of 1511 as being worth 10 denarii. In reality, it runs, as its second name indicates, for 4 denarii or a third gross. This coin would have been struck from the end of the 14th century and remains, in the middle of the 15th century, of a still medieval style with the uncial letters. Robert de Lénoncourt had bought against the advice of the Messins and for 4,000 Francs the right to mint the workshop. Nevertheless, he never knocked in Metz.
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