Live auction - bfe_347946 - ARDENNES - DUCHY OF BOUILLON - GODEFROY-MAURICE DE LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE Escalin

ARDENNES - DUCHY OF BOUILLON - GODEFROY-MAURICE DE LA TOUR D AUVERGNE Escalin VF

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Estimate :	1 000 €
Price :	660 €
Maximum bid :	888 €
End of the sale :	31 March 2015 16:35:17
bidders :	3 bidders

Type : Escalin

Date: 1683

Mint name / Town : Bouillon

Metal : billon

Diameter : 27,5 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 4,85 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Cet escalin est frappé sur un flan large et régulier. Exemplaire recouvert d’une légère patine grise. Usure régulière

Catalogue references :

Bd.- - PA.6363 - NP.42/R.75

Obverse

Obverse legend : GODE F. MAV. D. G. DVX. BVLLIONEVS 1-6-8-3.

Obverse description : Écu sommé d’une couronne ducale, écartelé au 1 de La Tour d’Auvergne, au 2 de Boulogne, au 3 de Turenne, au 4 de La Tour d’Auvergne, sur le tout un petit écu mi-parti d’Auvergne et de Bouillon.

Obverse translation : (Godefroy-Maurice, par la grâce de Dieu, duc de Bouillon).

Reverse

Reverse legend : .NON. EST. CONSILIVM. ADVERSVS. DOMIN-VM. (ROSE).

Reverse description : Lion debout à gauche, tenant une épée de la patte droite, la patte gauche reposant sur un bouclier ovale mi-parti d’Auvergne et de Bouillon.

Reverse translation : (Il n'y a point de Conseil à tenir contre le Seigneur).

Commentary

Exemplaire issu du même carré de droit et de revers que l’exemplaire n° 10 de la planche XIX de la RN 1990 (J.-P. Garnier, “Les monnaies de Godefroi-Maurice de La Tour d’Auvergne, duc de Bouillon (1652-1721)”, RN 1990, p. 171-185, mais avec ajout au revers d’une rose à cinq pétales et de poils entre les jambes du lion, regravés dans le carré.

Historical background

ARDENNES - DUCHY OF BOUILLON - GODEFROY-MAURICE DE LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE

(1676-1721)

Godefroy-Maurice de la Tour, son of Frédéric-Maurice de la Tour (1605-1652) and Éléonore Fébronie Catherine van der Berghet was born on June 21, 1636. He is Turenne's nephew. Since 1658, he has been Grand Chamberlain to Louis XIV and since April 19, 1662 the husband of Anne-Marie Mancini, Mazarin's niece. He had been tutelary duke of Bouillon since his father had ceded the principality of Sedan to the king to save himself during the conspiracy of Cinq-Mars in 1642. In 1675, when the king invaded Luxembourg and the bishopric of Bouillon, he constituted for Godefroy-Maurice a principality, the duchy of Bouillon, which kept it until his death in 1691. The possession of the duchy was confirmed in 1679 by the Treaty of Nijmegen. He died on July 26, 1721.