Live auction - fwo_336495 - MONACO - PRINCIPALITY OF MONACO - HONORE III Pezzetta 1735 Monaco
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| Estimate : | 250 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 26 July 2016 16:11:46 |
Type : Pezzetta
Date: 1735
Mint name / Town : Monaco
Quantity minted : -
Metal : billon
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 4,14 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire avec une usure de circulation , beau portrait d’Honoré encore bien visible. Patine marron chocolat
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : HONORATVS. III. D. G. PR. MONOECI.
Obverse description : Buste nu, drapé et cuirassé d'Honoré III à droite vu de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse translation : (Honoré III par la grâce de Dieu prince de Monaco).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AVXILLIVM. MEVM A DOMINO. 1735.
Reverse description : Croix formée de quatre H couronnées , cantonnée de quatre fuseaux ; rosette au centre dans un cartouche.
Reverse translation : (Mon secours vient du Seigneur).
Commentary
La pezzetta correspond à une pièce de 3 sols, 36 deniers, 12 liards ou 6 blancs. Monaco au début des années 1730 avait besoin de petites monnaies divisionnaires et le chevalier Grimaldi, qui administrait la principauté au nom d'Honoré III, fit frapper des petites quantités de pezzetta, demi-pezzetta, dardennes et liards.
Historical background
MONACO - PRINCIPALITY OF MONACO - HONORE III
(1720-1795)
Honoré III (1720-1795) is the eldest son of Jacques I de Guyon-Matignon (1689-1751) and Louise Hyppolite (1697-1731), the niece of Antoine, Prince of Monaco (1661-1731). In three years, the principality which had known only three princes in one hundred and thirty years saw three in succession. The long reign of Honoré III allowed a necessary restoration thanks to the administration of the knight Grimaldi, adulterine son of Antoine Ier who "reigned" during more than fifty years. Unfortunately, at the end of his reign, the principality was annexed by the Revolutionary Convention on February 14, 1793. Honoré was imprisoned, saved by the end of the Terror but he died in 1795. Honoré III had married a wealthy Genoese heiress in 1751, Marie-Catherine de Brignole-Sale, daughter of a doge of Genoa whom he divorced in 1770 and it was his son Honoré IV (1758-1819) who succeeded him, but in 1814.
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