Live auction - fwo_426446 - ALSACE - COUNTY OF HANAU-LICHTENBERG - JOHANN-REINHARD I Teston 1610 Wœrth-sur-Sauer

ALSACE - COUNTY OF HANAU-LICHTENBERG - JOHANN-REINHARD I Teston 1610 Wœrth-sur-Sauer XF

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Estimate :	250 €
Price :	250 €
Maximum bid :	260 €
End of the sale :	02 May 2017 17:17:59
bidders :	3 bidders

Type : Teston

Date: 1610

Mint name / Town : Wœrth-sur-Sauer

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 875 ‰

Diameter : 29,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 8,17 g.

Rarity : R1

Catalogue references :

Bd.1403 (6 f.) - EL.n° 53 (17/10), p. 101

Obverse

Obverse legend : (ROSE) IOAN. REINH. COM. IN. HANAVV. ET ZVV..

Obverse description : Buste à droite de Jean-René, drapé et cuirassé, avec un col plat.

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

Reverse

Reverse legend : (ROSE) DNS. I. LIECHTE. ET. OCH. MAR. ET. AD. A..

Reverse 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.

Reverse translation : (seigneur de Lichtenberg et d'Ochsenstein, maréchal et avoué de [l'évêque de] Strasbourg ; dominus in Lichtenberg et Ochsenstein mareschallus et advocatus Argentinensis).

Commentary

Le monnayage de Jean-René fut très diversifié, aussi bien dans les types que dans les dénominations. Il existe de nombreuses variétés de testons : il en existe sans millésime, comme cet exemplaire, et d’autres aux millésimes 1601, 1608-1610, 1613 ou 1621.

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.