Live auction - bfe_397757 - DUCHY OF LORRAINE - CHARLES II Gros
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| Estimate : | 4 500 € |
| Price : | 3 000 € |
| Maximum bid : | 4 662 € |
| End of the sale : | 13 December 2016 16:58:38 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Gros
Date: c. 1420-1424
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Saint-Mihiel
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,94 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Ce gros est frappé sur un flan large, irrégulier et légèrement voilé. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise de médaillier et présentant quelques petites faiblesses de frappe et un léger tréflage au revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la vente Armand Trampitsch, 31 mai et 1er juin 1988, n° 296
Obverse
Obverse legend : KAROLVS* DVX - LOTHOR’* Z* M'.
Obverse description : Le duc debout de face, couronné, tenant l'épée haute de la main droite, cotte à la bande aux trois alérions.
Obverse translation : (Charles, duc de Lorraine et...).
Reverse
Reverse legend : MONE-TA* FCA - IN* S* M-ICHAL*, (PONCTUATION PAR ROSE ÉVIDÉE).
Reverse description : Croix coupant la légende, sur un champ écartelé aux 1 et 4 de Lorraine, aux 2 et 3 de Bar, portant en cœur un écu parti à dextre de Jérusalem, à senestre parti d’Anjou ancien et d’Anjou moderne.
Reverse translation : (Monnaie frappée à Saint-Mihiel).
Commentary
Atelier très rare pour ce type monétaire, manquant à de Saulcy et servant d’illustration à l’ouvrage de Dominique Flon. Monnaie frappée durant une courte période pendant la régence de Charles II de Lorraine, après l’abandon des états du cardinal-duc de Bar en août 1419 et avant l’émancipation de René Ier à partir du 4 janvier 1424.
Historical background
DUCHY OF LORRAINE - CHARLES II
(1390-1431)
Charles (1364-1431), son of John I and Sophie of Württemberg, married Margaret of Bavaria (+1434). Godson of Charles V the Wise, he was brought up in Paris. He fought the Moors in Africa, then the Slavs in Lithuania in 1399. He supported his father-in-law Rupert, raised to imperial dignity and was the ally of Jean sans Peur against Louis d'Orléans who supported Wenceslas, Duke of Luxembourg and competitor of his father-in-law at the Empire. In Lorraine, he had to face the Burgundians, Messins and Strasbourgeois. He was appointed constable of France after the assassination of Bernard d'Armagnac. Having lost his sons, in 1419 he married his daughter Isabelle to René d'Anjou (1409-1480), heir to the duchy of Bar, thus preparing for the reunification of the two duchies in the same family. Charles died in 1431.
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