bfe_327161 - ORANGE - PRINCIPALITY OF ORANGE - MAURICE OF NASSAU Demi-franc
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 420.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 420.00 €
Type : Demi-franc
Date: 1620
Mint name / Town : Orange
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 6,58 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Ce demi-franc est frappé sur un flan légèrement irrégulier et présente un léger tréflage au droit. On doit noter une petite rayure dans le champ, derrière la tête du prince. Le portrait est expressif
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : .MAVRITIVS. I. D. G. PRIN. AVR. CO. NA. / F, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 7 HEURES).
Obverse description : Buste de Maurice de Nassau à droite, cuirassé, drapé, avec une fraise, contenu dans un cercle lisse.
Obverse translation : (Maurice I, par la grâce de Dieu, prince d'Orange, comte de Nassau).
Reverse
Reverse legend : (CORNET) SOLI. DEO. HONOR. ET. GLORI. 1620.
Reverse description : Croix fleuronnée et fleurdelisée.
Reverse translation : (À Dieu seul l'honneur et la gloire).
Historical background
ORANGE - PRINCIPALITY OF ORANGE - MAURICE OF NASSAU
(1618-1625)
Son of Guillaume de Nassau, Maurice de Nassau was born in Dillenburg in 1567. On the death of his father, aged only seventeen, he was appointed stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland, then, in 1587, captain general of the armies of land and sea of the United Provinces. It was with the support of King Henry IV of France that he took the places of Breda (1591), Nijmegen (1592) and all those on the right bank of the Rhine from the Spaniards. Maurice de Nassau built the citadel of Orange. He died in The Hague in 1625 and was succeeded by his brother, Frédéric-Henri..
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