Live auction - bfe_478173 - TOWN OF BESANCON - COINAGE STRUCK IN THE NAME OF CHARLES V Demi-pistole
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| Estimate : | 5 500 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 04 December 2018 16:29:09 |
Type : Demi-pistole
Date: 1652
Mint name / Town : Besançon
Metal : gold
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,22 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Cette demi-pistole est frappée sur un flan large et légèrement irrégulier. Exemplaire présentant des hairlines dans les champs et un petit choc sur la tranche, à 3 heures au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : (ROSE) CAROLVS. V. - IMPERATOR. AVG.
Obverse description : Buste drapé et lauré de Charles Quint à droite.
Obverse translation : (Charles Quint, empereur et auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : (ROSE) MON. AVR. CIVIT. IMP. BISVNTINÆ. 1652.
Reverse description : Aigle bicéphale impériale nimbée, chargée en cœur d’un écu aux armes de Besançon.
Reverse translation : (Monnaie d’or de la cité impériale de Besançon).
Commentary
Cette demi-pistole fut frappée suite à une ordonnance du 9 août 1652. Les archives attestent la frappe de ces pistoles de 1660 à 1662, mais aucun exemplaire n’a été retrouvé pour ces millésimes. Seuls les millésimes 1653 et 1654 ont été retrouvés. Cet exemplaire, au millésime 1652, est absent des ouvrages de référence (Carvalho, Clairand et Kind).
Historical background
TOWN OF BESANCON - COINAGE STRUCK IN THE NAME OF CHARLES V
(1555-1676)
Charles V said Charles Quint was born in Ghent on February 25, 1500 from the union of the Archduke Philippe le Beau and Jeanne la Folle. On the paternal side he was the grandson of Maximilian I of Habsburg and on the maternal side, grandson of the Catholic Kings, Ferdinand and Isabella. He became ruler of the Netherlands when his father died in 1506, when he was only 6 years old. A period of regency was exercised by his aunt Margaret of Austria until his emancipation before the States General on January 5, 1515. On January 23, 1516, his maternal grandfather died and he acceded to the throne of Spain under the name of Charles I. After the death of Maximilian I, Charles was elected German Emperor on June 28, 1519, under the name of Charles V. This election was at the origin of a long conflict which opposed him to the King of France François I. Charles Quint abdicated on October 25, 1555 from his possessions in the Netherlands and then on January 16, 1556 from his Spanish possessions. He died on September 21, 1558 in the monastery of San Jeromino de Yuste.
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