Live auction - bfe_948933 - MURBACH AND LURE - LEOPOLD OF AUSTRIA (ADMINISTRATOR) Thaler
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Live starting : Type : Thaler
Date: 1625
Mint name / Town : Guebwiller
Metal : silver
Diameter : 41,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 28,58 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Ce thaler est frappée sur un flan large et régulier. Monnaie recouverte d’une patine grise. De petite craquelures dans le haut de l’écu du revers et de petites rayures derrière le buste
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Monnaie provenant de la collection Voltz, n° 363 et de la collection Jean-Marie Dubel
Obverse
Obverse legend : + LEOPOLDVS. D G. ARCH. AVS. ARG. ET. PASS. EPVS..
Obverse description : Buste à droite de Léopold, au-dessous 1625.
Reverse
Reverse legend : .AD-MINISTRA. MVR. ET - LVD.
Reverse description : Écu couronné aux armes de Hongrie, Bohême, Styrie, Bourgogne, Autriche, Castille, Carinthie, Carniole, Habsbourg, Görz, Burgau, Souabe, Wurtemberg et Haute-Autriche, eh haut, au centre un écu de Tyrol. À gauche un écu mitre de Murbach et à droite un écu de Lure.
Reverse translation : (Administrateur de Murbach et Lure).
Commentary
Rare variété avec les écus de Wurtemberg (trois bois) et de Souabe (trois lions) intervertis par rapport du Divo, n° 74, p. 79. Ce thaler est issu de la même paire de carrés que celui illustré dans l’ouvrage de Jean-Paul Divo, n° 75, p. 80. Cet auteur, n’a recensé que deux autres exemplaires, l’un au Département des Monnaies et Médailles de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et l’autre dans l’ancien stock de la Maison Poinsignon de Strasbourg.
Historical background
MURBACH AND LURE - LEOPOLD OF AUSTRIA (ADMINISTRATOR)
(1614-1626)
Leopold was the twelfth child of Archduke Charles and Mary of Bavaria; he was born in Graz in 1586. In 1598, he was appointed bishop of Passau in Bavaria, then nine years later he obtained the bishopric of Strasbourg. In 1614 he was appointed administrator of the abbey seat of Murbach and Lure. In 1619, Emperor Matthias appointed him Governor of the Upper and Lower Lands of Austria, with the title of Landgrave of Alsace, making him one of the most powerful princes of the House of Habsburg. In 1625, in order to ensure the continuity of the direct male line of the House of Habsburg, he left the ecclesiastical state by abandoning his bishoprics and abbeys but keeping his status as governor of Tyrol and Alsace. After obtaining a dispensation from Pope Urban VIII, he married on April 20, 1626, Claudia de' Medici, daughter of Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany. He died on September 13, 1632 in Schwaz (Tyrol).
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