v54_0333 - SWITZERLAND - PRINCIPALITY OF NEUCHÂTEL - HENRI II D'ORLÉANS-LONGUEVILLE Demi-batz 1648 Neuchâtel
MONNAIES 54 (2012)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 220.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 220.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Demi-batz
Date: 1648
Mint name / Town : Neuchâtel
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 159 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 1,35 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Ce demi-batz est frappé sur un flan irrégulier et voilé. Reliefs plus nets au droit qu’au revers. Exemplaire recouvert d’une légère patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : .HE. AV. DVX. LONG. D: G. PRI. NOVICAS.
Obverse description : Écu couronné, mi-parti d’Orléans et de Neuchâtel ; de part et d’autre 4-8.
Obverse translation : (Henri d’Orléans, duc de Longueville, par la grâce de Dieu, prince de Neuchâtel).
Reverse
Reverse legend : :OCVLI. DOMINI. ET. PAX. SVP. IVSTO.
Reverse description : Croix échancrée cantonnée de quatre lis.
Reverse translation : (Les yeux de l’Éternel et la paix sont sur les justes, d’après le psaume 34.13).
Historical background
SWITZERLAND - PRINCIPALITY OF NEUCHÂTEL - HENRI II D'ORLÉANS-LONGUEVILLE
(06-04-1595/01-05-1663)
Henri II de Longueville was born on April 6, 1595 from the union of Henri I of Orléans-Longueville and Catherine de Gonzague. He did not know his father who died in Amiens only two days after his birth. The King of France Henri IV was his godfather. He died in Normandy on May 11, 1663, leaving from his first marriage a daughter, Marie, and from his second marriage with Anne-Geneviève de Bourbon, sister of the great Condé, he had two sons, Jean-Louis Charles and Charles-Paris.
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