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bfe_1073990 - AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - EDWARD III OF ENGLAND Gros tournois à la couronne

AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - EDWARD III OF ENGLAND Gros tournois à la couronne VF
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Type : Gros tournois à la couronne
Date: c. 1351
Date: s.m.
Mint name / Town : Bordeaux
Metal : billon
Diameter : 25,5 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 2,88 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Ce gros est frappé sur un flan large et irrégulier. Monnaie présentant des faiblesses de frappe importante, mais avec des reliefs assez nets pour certaines parties. Patine grise

Obverse


Obverse legend : + ED REX - ANGLIE ; LÉGENDE EXTÉRIEURE : + BNDICT[V: SIT: NOME: DNI: N]RI: D, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX ANNELETS SUPERPOSÉS).
Obverse description : Croix coupant la légende en bas.
Obverse translation : (Édouard, roi d’Angleterre ; que le nom de notre seigneur Jésus-Christ soit béni).

Reverse


Reverse legend : DVX° AQITANIE, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX ANNELETS) ; EN EXTÉRIEUR DES TRÈFLES DANS DES OVES.
Reverse description : Couronne ; au-dessus un annelet.
Reverse translation : (duc d’Aquitaine).

Commentary


Variété avec un annelet au-dessus de la couronne du revers (Elias, n° 60e, p. 97). Elias date ces gros tournois à la couronne de 1351 alors que d’autres auteurs ont proposé des datations plus tardives. La présence d’un exemplaire dans le dépôt monétaire de Xaintray (Deux-Sèvres, actuellement à l’étude par A. Clairand) enfoui en 1352 en contenant un exemplaire, donne raison à Elias. Ce type monétaire s’inspire du gros à la queue ordonné à la fin du règne de Philippe VI, avec sa croix coupant la légende en bas. Le châtel tournois a été remplacé par une couronne.
Variety with a ringlet above the reverse crown (Elias, no. 60e, p. 97). Elias dates these gros tournois with a crown to 1351, while other authors have proposed later dates. The presence of an example in the Xaintray coin hoard (Deux-Sèvres, currently being studied by A. Clairand), buried in 1352, supports Elias's date. This coin type is inspired by the gros à la queue (large coin with a tail) issued at the end of Philip VI's reign, with its cross cutting across the legend at the bottom. The castle of tournois has been replaced by a crown.

Historical background


AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - EDWARD III OF ENGLAND

(1317-1362)

Edward (1312-1377), eldest son of Edward II and Isabella of France, follows his mother when she rebels against her husband. When Edward II is overthrown, Edward III, who had already been Duke of Aquitaine since 1317, becomes King of England. He marries Philippa de Hainaut (+1369), the daughter of the count of Hainaut, Guillaume. After the death of Charles IV le Bel, his cousin, he paid homage to Philippe VI de Valois for Aquitaine. In 1330, in England, he executed Mortimer, his minister and his mother's lover. He forces his mother to retire (+1358). Pushed by his cousin Robert d'Artois, he broke the homage for Aquitaine. The Hundred Years' War began in 1337. The French were beaten at Écluse in 1340, then at Crécy in 1346. He took Calais after a long siege (the famous bourgeois). England was hit by the Great Plague in 1348. After the death of Philip VI, he continued the fight against John II, defeated him at Poitiers and took him prisoner. Edward, the Black Prince, became Prince of Aquitaine in 1362.

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