Live auction - fjt_541259 - ORLÉANAIS - Gentry and towns Cathédrale Sainte-Croix d’Orléans 1863
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| Estimate : | 35 € |
| Price : | 16 € |
| Maximum bid : | 16 € |
| End of the sale : | 30 July 2019 17:12:35 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Cathédrale Sainte-Croix d’Orléans
Date: (1860-1879)
Date: 1863
Mint name / Town : s.l.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 12,98 g.
Edge : cannelée
Puncheon : Abeille (1860-1880)
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire superbe
Obverse
Obverse legend : SANCTAE. CRVCIS - AVREL. ACADEMIA ; À L’EXERGUE EN DEUX LIGNES : FELIX. EPISC. INSTIT/ M.DCCC.LXIII..
Obverse description : La cathédrale d'Orléans de face ; signature Dantzell.
Obverse translation : (L'académie Sainte-Croix d'Orléans - Instituée sous un heureux épiscopat).
Reverse
Reverse legend : * CHRISTIANAE. VERITATIS. ET. LITTERARVM. CONCORDIA.
Reverse description : Croix byzantine avec le chrisme au centre.
Reverse translation : (La concorde de la vérité chrétienne et des lettres).
Commentary
Poinçon abeille. Frappe monnaie. La Cathédrale Sainte-Croix existe depuis le VIIIe siècle mais l’incendie de 989 ravage l’édifice qui est reconstruit par les premiers Capétiens. Au XIIe siècle, l’édifice reçoit une façade avec trois portails et deux tours mais un effondrement de terrain oblige à reprendre les travaux au XIIIe siècle. Pendant les Guerres de religion, les piliers du transept sont minés par les Huguenots. Henri IV, dans un esprit de réconciliation pose la première pierre d’une nouvelle cathédrale en 1601. Les travaux se poursuivent tout au long du XVIIIe siècle, les tours sont construites en 1767.
Historical background
ORLÉANAIS - Gentry and towns
Founded on the ruins of the Gallic city of Cenabum, the city takes the name of the emperor Aurélien, Aurelianum. The city was a bishopric from the 4th century then capital of a Frankish kingdom in the 6th century. Forming a county under the Carolingians, the Orleans region then became the territorial base of Capetian power. Endowed with a university since 1309, it was then besieged by the English but delivered by Joan of Arc in May 1429. The city then entered history several times during the Wars of Religion, the Fronde or in 1870 when it is occupied by von der Tann.
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