v12_0582 - LORRAINE - DUCHY OF LORRAINE - HENRY II Demi-franc au col plat
MONNAIES 12 (2001)
Starting price : 228.67 €
Estimate : 426.86 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 228.67 €
Estimate : 426.86 €
unsold lot
Type : Demi-franc au col plat
Date: 1590
Mint name / Town : Saint-Lizier
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 833 ‰
Diameter : 31 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 5,63 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Ce demi-franc est frappé sur un flan extrêmement large laissant apparaître une bonne partie des grènetis extérieurs. On doit noter un tréflage au revers. Le droit et le revers sont tachés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : HENRICVS. III. D G. FRANC. ET. POL. REX - 1590 , (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 6 HEURES).
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé à droite avec le col plat, K sous le buste.
Obverse translation : (Henri III, par la grâce de Dieu, roi des Francs et des Polonais).
Reverse
Reverse legend : .SIT. NOMEN. DOMINI. BENEDICTVM. (MM). (MG).
Reverse description : Croix feuillue et fleurdelisée, avec H en cœur.
Reverse translation : (Béni soit le nom du Seigneur).
Historical background
LORRAINE - DUCHY OF LORRAINE - HENRY II
(05/14/1608-1624)
Henri was born in Nancy on November 8, 1563 from the union of Charles III and Claude of France. He succeeded his deceased father in Nancy on May 14, 1608. In 1599, he secretly married Catherine de Bourbon, the sister of King Henry IV of France, who was Protestant. Pope Clement VIII, having learned of this marriage, excommunicated Henri de Lorraine who however obtained in 1604 a pontifical pardon. Catherine de Bourbon died childless on February 13, 1604. On April 24, 1606, Henri I of Lorraine married his second wife Marguerite de Gonzague, daughter of Vincent I, Duke of Mantua, and Léonore de Médicis. Marguerite had only daughters before dying in 1632. Henri I of Lorraine appointed his daughter Nicole to succeed him; she married Charles (future Charles IV), the son of the Count of Vaudémont. Henri died in Nancy on July 31, 1624.
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