bfe_323171 - ORANGE - PRINCIPALITY OF ORANGE - MAURICE OF NASSAU Liard
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 50.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 50.00 €
Type : Liard
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Orange
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 0,86 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Ce liard est frappé sur un flan irrégulier et ébranché . Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : MAVRITI[VS. D. G. PRIN. A].
Obverse description : M couronnée entre trois lis posés 2 et 1 dans un cercle lisse.
Obverse translation : (Maurice I, par la grâce de Dieu, prince d'Orange).
Reverse
Reverse legend : (CORNET) SOL[I. DEO. HO]NOR. ET. G.
Reverse description : Croix de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit dans un cercle lisse.
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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