v22_0083 - ANJOU - COUNTY OF ANJOU - CHARLES I Denier ou angevin

ANJOU - COUNTY OF ANJOU - CHARLES I Denier ou angevin VF

MONNAIES 22 (2005)
Starting price : 55.00 €
Estimate : 90.00 €
Realised price : 65.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 120.00 €

Type : Denier ou angevin

Date: c. 1266-1285

Mint name / Town : Angers

Metal : billon

Millesimal fineness : 272 ‰

Diameter : 18,5 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 0,96 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan légèrement irrégulier. La croix du revers apparaît en négatif au droit. Exemplaire recouvert d’une légère patine grise

Catalogue references :

Bd.161 (5 f.) - PA.1528 (28/20) - M.963 - L.735 (RR) - SCMF.4702

Obverse

Obverse legend : + :K. REX SICILIE, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 9 HEURES).

Obverse description : Une clef et un lis accosté de deux besants.

Obverse translation : (Charles, roi de Sicile).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + .C. ANDEGAVIE.

Reverse description : Croix cantonnée d'un oméga dégénéré en forme de couronne au 3e canton.

Reverse translation : (Comte d'Anjou).

Historical background

ANJOU - COUNTY OF ANJOU - CHARLES I

(1246-1285)

Anjou had been seized in 1204 during the commission of the lands of Jean sans Terre and annexed to the kingdom. Charles I of Anjou is the tenth son of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile; he was born in March 1227. In 1232, the young Charles became count of Maine and Anjou, then count of Provence in 1246 following his marriage to Béatrice, daughter heiress of the count of Provence Raymond Bérenger, who died in 1245. He crossed alongside Saint Louis and did not return until 1250 after two years of captivity. In 1266, Pope Clement IV granted him the kingdom of Naples and Sicily. In 1270, he once again accompanied Saint Louis on a crusade, then in 1277 he bought the title of King of Jerusalem. Charles died on January 7, 1285 in Foggia fighting Peter III of Aragon who had driven him out of Sicily.