Live auction - bfe_349340 - LORRAINE - DUCHY OF LORRAINE - FRANCIS III Petit écu ou double teston
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| Estimate : | 7 500 € |
| Price : | 3 800 € |
| Maximum bid : | 4 000 € |
| End of the sale : | 31 March 2015 16:28:45 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Petit écu ou double teston
Date: 1736
Mint name / Town : Nancy
Metal : silver
Diameter : 35 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 16,26 g.
Edge : striée
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Ce double teston est frappé sur un flan large et régulier. Exemplaire présentant de hauts reliefs ainsi qu’une patine de médaillier hétérogène un peu plus marquée au droit qu’au revers. D’infimes stries d’ajustage à 7 heures au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FRANC. III. D. G. DVX. LOT. BAR. REX. IER..
Obverse description : Buste drapé et cuirassé à droite de François III.
Obverse translation : (François III, par la grâce de Dieu, duc Lorraine, de Bar, roi de Jérusalem).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IN. TE. DOMINE. SPERAVI. 1736..
Reverse description : Écu couronné, mi-parti de Lorraine et de Bar, cantonnée de deux croix de Lorraine à double traverse.
Commentary
Exemplaire frappé avec les mêmes carrés de droit et de revers que l’exemplaire de la collection Claouet (Crédit de la Bourse, 26-28 avril 1993, n° 1225). Dernier type monétaire frappé dans le duché de Lorraine.
Historical background
LORRAINE - DUCHY OF LORRAINE - FRANCIS III
(1/09/1715-10/05/1774)
François III (28/12/1708-17/08/1765) is the second son of Léopold Duke of Lorraine (1690-1727) and Elisabeth Charlotte of Orléans, the niece of Louis XIV. He succeeded his father on May 17, 1729 but lived in Austria. At the end of the War of the Polish Succession which had begun in 1733 and ended in 1735, it was decided that François III of Lorraine, who was to become the son-in-law of Charles VI by marrying his daughter, Marie-Thérèse, would renounce the Duchy of Lorraine and Bar in exchange for the Duchy of Tuscany and the hand of Maria Theresa with the title of future emperor, after the death of Charles VI. Stanislas Lezczinsky, father-in-law of Louis XV, would retain the title of King of Poland and would become Duke of Lorraine and Bar. Upon his death, Lorraine and Bar would be attached to France. François married Marie-Thérèse on February 12, 1736. On May 10, 1736, he accepted the treaty which stripped him of Lorraine. On September 13, he renounced his title of Duke of Bar and on December 24 of the same year, by a secret act, renounced Lorraine. On February 13, 1737, the Treaty of Presbourg ratified the withdrawal of François III.
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