Live auction - fwo_1159335 - ENGLAND - KINGDOM OF ENGLAND - HENRY VI OF LANCASTER Demi-noble n.d. Londres
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Live starting : Type : Demi-noble
Date: (1422-1427)
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Londres
Quantity minted : -
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 979 ‰
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 3,38 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Ce demi-noble est frappé sur un flan plutôt court légèrement irrégulier. Exemplaire à l’aspect homogène
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + H - ENRIC’(LIS) DI’:. GRA’:. REX:. ANGL:.’ Z’:. FRAN’, (PONCTUATION PAR SIMPLE TRÈFLE COMPOSÉ DE TROIS POINTS POSÉS EN TRIANGLE).
Obverse description : Henry couronné, en cote de mailles, debout à mi-corps dans une nef vue de profil, tenant l'épée haute de la main droite et de la gauche l'écu écartelé de France et d’Angleterre ; un annelet à gauche de la garde de l’épée.
Obverse translation : (Henry, par la grâce de Dieu, roi de France et d’Angleterre).
Reverse
Reverse legend : (LIS) DOMINE* NE° IN° FVRORE° TVO° ARGVAS° ME, (PONCTUATION PAR ÉTOILE PUIS SIMPLE ANNELET).
Reverse description : Croix feuillue et fleurdelisée portant en cœur un quadrilobe anglé contenant une h, cantonnée de quatre léopards couronnés ; le tout dans un octolobe cantonné de sept petits trèfles et d’un annelet.
Commentary
Ce demi-noble d’or fut frappé entre 1422 et 1427 : cette émission est notamment caractérisée par la présence d’un annelet à gauche de la garde de l’épée du roi et par celle d’un annelet dans l’un des cantons du quadrilobe du revers.
This gold half-noble was struck between 1422 and 1427: this issue is notably characterized by the presence of a ringlet to the left of the guard of the king's sword and by that of a ringlet in one of the cantons of the quatrefoil on the reverse.
This gold half-noble was struck between 1422 and 1427: this issue is notably characterized by the presence of a ringlet to the left of the guard of the king's sword and by that of a ringlet in one of the cantons of the quatrefoil on the reverse.
Historical background
ENGLAND - KINGDOM OF ENGLAND - HENRY VI OF LANCASTER
(1422-1461) (1470-1471)
Henry VI is the son of Henry V and Catherine of France; he was born in Windsor on December 6, 1421. When his father died, he was only ten and a half months old. A period of regency began and it was his uncle, the Duke of Bedford, who administered the kingdom of England. The Duke of Bedford had Henry VI crowned in Paris on December 14, 1431. During his reign, the English lost almost all their possessions in France, keeping only Calais after the capitulation of Bordeaux on October 19, 1453. In 1445, he married to Marguerite d'Anjou, to whom he gave up part of his power, suffering from fits of madness like his maternal grandfather, the King of France Charles VI. The loss of French territories was at the origin of the Wars of the Roses which began in 1455 and ended with the coronation of Edward IV in 1461 and the flight of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou to Holland. In 1470, he was returned to the throne by Warwick, but Edward IV ended up having him imprisoned in the Tower of London where he died on May 21, 1471, probably assassinated..
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