bfe_748708 - DUCHY OF LORRAINE - CHARLES II Gros

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Type : Gros

Date: c. 1390-1431

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Nancy

Metal : silver

Diameter : 26 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 2,40 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Ce gros est frappé sur un flan court, irrégulier et voilé. Exemplaire recouvert d’une jolie patine grise hétérogène

Catalogue references :

Bd.- - Flon.n° 28 p. 431

Obverse

Obverse legend : KAROLVS* DVX - LOTHOR’* Z* M’, (M ONCIALE).

Obverse description : Le duc debout de face, couronné, tenant l'épée haute de la main droite, cotte à la bande aux trois alérions.

Obverse translation : (Charles, duc de Lorraine et...).

Reverse

Reverse legend : SIT* NO-ME*DNI-BENED-ICTVM.

Reverse description : Croix coupant la légende, sur un champ écartelé aux 1 et 4 de Lorraine, aux 2 et 3 de Bar, portant en cœur un écu parti à dextre de Jérusalem, à senestre parti d’Anjou ancien et d’Anjou moderne.

Reverse translation : (Soit béni le nom du Seigneur).

Historical background

DUCHY OF LORRAINE - CHARLES II

(1390-1431)

Charles (1364-1431), son of John I and Sophie of Württemberg, married Margaret of Bavaria (+1434). Godson of Charles V the Wise, he was brought up in Paris. He fought the Moors in Africa, then the Slavs in Lithuania in 1399. He supported his father-in-law Rupert, raised to imperial dignity and was the ally of Jean sans Peur against Louis d'Orléans who supported Wenceslas, Duke of Luxembourg and competitor of his father-in-law at the Empire. In Lorraine, he had to face the Burgundians, Messins and Strasbourgeois. He was appointed constable of France after the assassination of Bernard d'Armagnac. Having lost his sons, in 1419 he married his daughter Isabelle to René d'Anjou (1409-1480), heir to the duchy of Bar, thus preparing for the reunification of the two duchies in the same family. Charles died in 1431.

DUCHY OF LORRAINE - CHARLES II Gros XF/AU

1400.00 €

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DUCHY OF LORRAINE - CHARLES II Petit gros au chevalier VF

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