Live auction - bfe_375631 - LORRAINE - DUCHY OF LORRAINE - RAOUL CALLED "THE VALIANT" Demi-gros
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| Estimate : | 900 € |
| Price : | 540 € |
| Maximum bid : | 905 € |
| End of the sale : | 01 March 2016 16:47:46 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Demi-gros
Date: c. 1329-1346
Mint name / Town : Nancy
Metal : billon
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 0,69 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Ce demi-gros est frappé sur un flan large et régulier. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise de médaillier et présentant quelques faiblesses de frappe
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : RADVLPHVSX DVXX MARCHIO.
Obverse description : Épée posée en pal accosté de deux écus de Lorraine sommés d’un trèfle.
Obverse translation : (Raoul, duc de Lorraine).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + MONETAX DEX LOTHORINGIA.
Reverse description : Croix fleuronnée, avec quadrilobe en cœur, dans un quadrilobe fleuronné.
Reverse translation : (Monnaie de Nancy).
Historical background
LORRAINE - DUCHY OF LORRAINE - RAOUL CALLED "THE VALIANT"
(1329-25/08/1346)
Raoul was born in 1320 from the union of Duke Ferry IV and Elisabeth of Austria. When his father died in 1329, he was nineteen years old and was placed under the regency of his mother until 1334. In 1337, an open war broke out with the Count of Bar, Henri IV. The King of France Philippe VI put an end to this conflict. Allied with the King of France, he fought the English by sending troops to the siege of Tournai. He also helped the King of Castile Alphonse XI to fight the Muslims of Granada and distinguished himself, on November 3, 1340, at the Battle of Gibraltar. Back in France, he supported his brother-in-law Charles de Blois during the War of the British Succession. He was killed during the battle of Crécy on August 25, 1346.
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