E-auction 31-10734 - fre_309546 - ALSACE - COUNTY OF HANAU-LICHTENBERG - JOHANN-REINHARD I 3 kreuzers n.d. Wœrth-sur-Sauer

ALSACE - COUNTY OF HANAU-LICHTENBERG - JOHANN-REINHARD I 3 kreuzers n.d. Wœrth-sur-Sauer VF

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Estimate :	60 €
Price :	31 €
Maximum bid :	36 €
End of the sale :	18 November 2013 16:48:00
bidders :	6 bidders

Type : 3 kreuzers

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Wœrth-sur-Sauer

Metal : billon

Diameter : 20,5 mm

Weight : 1,46 g.

Rarity : R1

Obverse

Obverse legend : + IOAN. REIN. CO. IN. HANAVV.

Obverse description : Écu écartelé au 1 de Deux-Ponts, au 2 de Lichtenberg, au 3 de Bitche, au 4 d'Ochsenstein, sur le tout un petit écu de Hanau.

Obverse translation : (Jean-René, comte de Hanau, et des Deux-Ponts ; Ioannes Reinhard, comes in Hanau et Zweibruck).

Reverse

Reverse legend : (COURONNE). MATTHIAS. I. RO. IM. SEM. AV..

Reverse description : Aigle bicéphale couronnée et nimbée portant un globe crucigère contenant le chiffre 3.

Reverse translation : (Matthias I, empereur romain, toujours auguste).

Commentary

Parmi les pièces sans millésime de Jean, certaines sont au nom de l’empereur Rodolphe II et d’autre, comme cet exemplaire, au nom de l’empereur Matthias Ier (1612-1619).

Historical background

ALSACE - COUNTY OF HANAU-LICHTENBERG - JOHANN-REINHARD I

(1599-1625)

The right to mint coins was granted to the Counts of Hanau in 1368, but the first coins were not minted until 1587 in the workshop of Wœrth-sur-Sauer. Jean René opened a second mint in Babenhausen. These two workshops were destroyed in 1632.