Live auction - bfe_347940 - PRINCIPALITY OF CHATEAU-REGNAULT - LOUISE-MARGUERITE OF LORRAINE Pièce de quatre sols (quatre patards)
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| Estimate : | 900 € |
| Price : | 480 € |
| Maximum bid : | 550 € |
| End of the sale : | 31 March 2015 16:32:07 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Pièce de quatre sols (quatre patards)
Date: 1619
Metal : silver
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,84 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Cette pièce est frappée sur un flan large et légèrement irrégulier. Exemplaire recouvert d’une légère patine grise et présentant quelques faiblesses de frappe au niveau des légendes
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : MONETA - NOVA - ARGEN - CH 1619, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 2 HEURES).
Obverse description : Écu posé sur une croix formée de deux bâtons noueux, timbré d’une couronne, écartelé aux 1 et 4 de Juliers, aux 2 et 3 de d’Aragon.
Obverse translation : (Monnaie nouvelle d’argent de Château-Regnault 1619).
Reverse
Reverse legend : (COURONNE) SUB* UMBRA* ALARUM* TUARUM.
Reverse description : Aigle impériale surmontée d’une croix au-dessus de laquelle se trouve une couronne ; en cœur de l’aigle un 12 dans un cartouche.
Reverse translation : (À l’ombre de tes ailes).
Historical background
PRINCIPALITY OF CHATEAU-REGNAULT - LOUISE-MARGUERITE OF LORRAINE
(1614-1629)
Louise-Marguerite is the daughter of Catherine de Clèves and Henri de Guise, assassinated in Blois on December 24, 1588, when she had just been born. Countess of Eu, she married François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti in 1605 who died in 1614. After his death she governed the principality of Château-Regnault alone until 1629, when she exchanged the principality to Louis XIII for Port -on the Seine. She secretly marries François de Bassompierre, from a younger branch of Cleves, with whom she plots against Richelieu. Discovered, she was exiled to the Château d'Eu where she died on April 30, 1631, François de Bassompierre then remaining imprisoned for twelve years. Pretty and intelligent, she is also the author of a book on "The adventures of the Persian court"..
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