v22_0547 - SAVOY - DUCHY OF SAVOY - CHARLES I Teston (testone)
MONNAIES 22 (2005)
Starting price : 500.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
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Starting price : 500.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Teston (testone)
Date: 05/02/1483
Mint name / Town : Cornavin
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 944 ‰
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 9,48 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Ce teston est frappé sur un flan régulier. Exemplaire présentant des faiblesses de frappe au niveau du buste et de l’écu de Savoie. Petits chocs sur le buste
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + KAROLVS. D. SABAVDIE. MAR. I. ITA. (MM), (PONCTUATION PAR SIMPLE LOSANGE).
Obverse description : Buste cuirassé à droite de Charles Ier, portant un chaperon, et tenant de sa main droite une épée inclinée.
Obverse translation : (Charles, duc de Savoie, marquis d’Italie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + XPS. VINCIT. XPS. REGNAT. XPS. INPER, (PONCTUATION PAR SIMPLE LOSANGE).
Reverse description : Écu de Savoie sous un nœud, accosté de FE-RT, le tout dans un double quadrilobe.
Reverse translation : (En Italie, [prince] des Marches).
Commentary
Variété de buste avec une épée inclinée.
Historical background
SAVOY - DUCHY OF SAVOY - CHARLES I
(1482-1490)
Charles I was born in 1468 in Carignan from the union of Amédée IX and Yolande de France. In 1482, he succeeded his brother Philibert I. In 1485 he married Blanche de Montferrat (1472-1519), daughter of Guillaume Paléologue de Montferrat and Elisabeth Sforza, with whom he had several children, including the future Duke Charles-Jean-Amédée. He is the first Duke of Savoy (from 1487) to bear the title of King of Cyprus, which he obtained by inheritance from his aunt Charlotte of Cyprus. Returning from Amboise where he had met Charles VIII, he died on March 13, 1490, possibly poisoned by the Marquis of Montferrat and was buried in Pignerol.
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