v08_1119 - ENGLAND - JOHN LACKLAND - COINAGE IN THE NAME OF HENRY II Penny dit "short cross", classe 5B c.1205-1216 Canterbury

ENGLAND - JOHN LACKLAND - COINAGE IN THE NAME OF HENRY II Penny dit short cross , classe 5B c.1205-1216 Canterbury AU

MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 99.09 €
Estimate : 144.83 €
Realised price : 182.94 €

Type : Penny dit "short cross", classe 5B

Date: c.1205-1216

Mint name / Town : Canterbury

Metal : silver

Diameter : 19 mm

Orientation dies : 9 h.

Weight : 1,50 g.

Coments on the condition:

Monnaie frappée sur un flan large. Léger décentrage au droit. Patine foncée de collection au droit et au revers

Catalogue references :

S.1351 - C.JH1D-015

Obverse

Obverse legend : HENRICVS R-EX.

Obverse description : Henri en buste de face, barbu, sommée d'une croix bouletée, avec la main droite tenant un sceptre bouleté et cruciforme.

Obverse translation : (Henri, roi).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + ROBERD. ON. CA.

Reverse description : Croix double et bouletée, cantonnée de quatre croisettes bouletées.

Reverse translation : (Robert à Canterbury).

Commentary

Notre exemplaire porte au revers le nom du monétaire Robert qui frappa à Canterbury des penny dits "à la croix courte" pour les classes 4C à 5C. Il appartient à la classe 5B correspondant au règne du roi Jean (1199-1216). Les penny des classes 5A et 5B auraient été frappés à partir de 1205.

Historical background

ENGLAND - JOHN LACKLAND - COINAGE IN THE NAME OF HENRY II

(1199-1216)

John was born in Oxford on December 24, 1167 from the union of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, of whom he was the fifth child. He was nicknamed "Landless" because his father had divided his domains among his elders. On the death of his brother Richard Coeur de Lion, which occurred in April 1199, he acceded to the throne of England at the expense of his nephew Duke Arthur of Brittany, son of Geoffroy, third child of Henry II. He had to fight against Philippe Auguste who confiscated his French domains (Anjou, Touraine, Normandy, Poitou...). He also clashed with the English barons who occupied London in May 1215 and, together with the bourgeois and the bishops, forced him to sign the Magna Carta, the great charter of English freedoms. In 1216, Jean not having kept his promises, the barons revolted again and proposed the crown of England to Louis, son of the king of France Philippe Auguste. The Plantagenet dynasty was saved by the death of King John in October 1216 at Newark Castle (Nottinghamshire), his son Henry III succeeding him.