bfe_877080 - PRINCIPALITY OF ORANGE - WILLIAM-HENRY OF NASSAU Douzième d'écu
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Type : Douzième d'écu
Date: 1660
Mint name / Town : Orange
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,21 g.
Rarity : R1
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Ce douzième d’écu est frappé sur un flan large et est légèrement décentré au droit. Monnaie recouverte d’une patine grise de médaillier. Petit coup au-dessus du lis droit de l’écu du revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GVIL. HEN - D. G. PRI. AV.
Obverse description : Buste tête nue à droite de Guillaume, drapé et cuirassé vu de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse translation : (Guillaume-Henri, par la grâce de Dieu, prince d'Orange).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI. DEO. HONOR. ET. GLO - 1-6-6-0.
Reverse description : Écu couronné orné de trois pseudo-lis posés 2 et 1.
Reverse translation : (À Dieu seul l'honneur et la gloire).
Historical background
PRINCIPALITY OF ORANGE - WILLIAM-HENRY OF NASSAU
(1650-1702)
Guillaume-Henri (1650-1702) was France's hereditary enemy of Louis XIV. Posthumous son of William II of Orange and Marie Stuart, sister of Charles II and Jacques II, he married his cousin Marie (1662-1694). Prince of Orange at birth, he became Stadtholder of the Netherlands after the assassination of the Witt brothers in 1672. He succeeded his uncle and father-in-law, James II, as King of England in 1688 and reigned from first with his wife Marie until 1694, then alone from 1694 until his death in 1702.
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