bry_1081461 - CHARLES X, CARDINAL OF BOURBON Douzain aux deux C, 2e type 1590 Bourges
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Type : Douzain aux deux C, 2e type
Date: 1590
Mint name / Town : Bourges
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 240 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2,38 g.
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Douzain frappé sur un flan irrégulier. Présence de faiblesses de frappe et usures sur les deux faces. Petites concrétions vertes au revers. Patine hétérogène avec de légers reflets cuivrés sur l’avers
Obverse
Obverse legend : [CA]ROLVS. X. D. G. FRANCO. REX. - [Y].
Obverse description : Écu de France couronné, accosté de deux C ; lettre d'atelier à la pointe.
Obverse translation : (Charles X, par la grâce de Dieu, roi des Francs).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + SIT. N[O]MEN. DOM[I]NI. BENE. 1590.
Reverse description : Croix échancrée, cantonnée aux 1 et 4 d'une couronnelle, aux 2 et 3 d'un lis.
Reverse translation : (Béni soit le nom du Seigneur).
Historical background
CHARLES X, CARDINAL OF BOURBON
(02/08/1589-9/05/1590)
Charles X, uncle and godfather of Henri IV and first cousin of François de Lorraine, was born in 1523. Cardinal and papal legate in Avignon from 1565 to 1590, it was he who had blessed the marriage of Marguerite de Valois and Henri IV on the eve of Saint-Barthélemy. On the death of the Duke of Alençon, last brother of Henry III, he was recognized by the League and by Philip II of Spain as heir presumptive to the crown. Recognized by Henri, in 1588, as his closest relative, he was arrested at Blois on December 23, 1588 while the Guises were being assassinated. He was proclaimed king by the Leaguers after the murder of Henri III on August 2, 1589 but died a prisoner at Fontenay-le-Comte on May 9, 1590..
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