bfe_898758 - PRINCIPALITY OF ORANGE - WILLIAM-HENRY OF NASSAU Douzième d'écu
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Type : Douzième d'écu
Date: 1661
Mint name / Town : Orange
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,01 g.
Coments on the condition:
Douzième d’écu frappé de manière légèrement décentrée sur un flan plutôt régulier. La patine est un peu sombre et hétérogène. Petite cassure de coin à 6h au revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : .GVIL. HNR. - .D: G. PRI. AV..
Obverse description : Buste de Guillaume-Henri de Nassau, tête nue à droite, drapé et cuirassé vu de trois quarts en avant ; au-dessous une rose.
Obverse translation : (Guillaume-Henri, par la grâce de Dieu, prince d'Orange).
Reverse
Reverse legend : .SOLI. DEO. HONOR. ET. GLO - 1-6-6-1.
Reverse description : Écu couronné.
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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