fwo_693403 - GERMANY - BRANDENBURG FRANCONIA - FREDERICK OF ANSBACH Florin d'or ou gulden n.d. Schwaben

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Type : Florin d'or ou gulden

Date: (1486-1495)

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Schwaben

Quantity minted : -

Metal : gold

Diameter : 22,5 mm

Orientation dies : 1 h.

Weight : 3,18 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Bel exemplaire bien centré de part et d’autre sur un flan large, légèrement irrégulier et voilé. Tréflage sur les deux faces

Catalogue references :

DM.440 - F.306

Obverse

Obverse legend : FRIDRICI: D: G - MARCH: BRAN, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX ANNELETS SUPERPOSÉS).

Obverse description : Saint Jean-Baptiste debout de face, drapé, tenant de sa main gauche l'agneau pascal ; une tête de chien à droite entre ses pieds.

Reverse

Reverse legend : + MONETA° NOVA° AVR’° SWOBACH’.

Reverse description : Croix fleuronnée posée en sautoir, cantonnée de quatre écus.

Historical background

GERMANY - BRANDENBURG FRANCONIA - FREDERICK OF ANSBACH

(1495-1515)

After the extinction of the Ascanian dynasty founded by Albert de Ballenstedt, known as Albert the Bear, Brandenburg fell into the bosom of the house of Bavaria in 1323 then of Luxembourg in 1373. On April 30, 1415, the Emperor Sigismund granted the title of margrave of Brandenburg to the burgrave of Nuremberg, Frederick of Hohenzollern, in gratitude for services rendered. The latter obtained the title of elector in 1417. Brandenburg remained in the house of Hohenzollern until November 1918. The Reformation was introduced there in 1539. Frederick, margrave of Ansbach, was the brother of John Cicero and the son of Albert Achille who died in 1486.