v35_0367 - AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE Hardi d’or

AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE Hardi d’or XF/AU

MONNAIES 35 (2008)
Starting price : 2 500.00 €
Estimate : 4 500.00 €
Realised price : 2 850.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 2 850.00 €

Type : Hardi d’or

Date: (1368-1372)

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Limoges

Metal : gold

Diameter : 27 mm

Orientation dies : 2 h.

Weight : 3,99 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Ce hardi est frappé sur un flan large, légèrement voilé. Reliefs nets sur les deux faces. Petit écrasement sur le visage du roi

Catalogue references :

Bd.507 (70 f.) - PA.cf. 3032 (cf. pl. 64/13) - E.162 (R) - Elias-

Obverse

Obverse legend : + ED* PO* GNS* REGIS* ANGLI* PNS* AQVITA, (PONCTUATION PAR SIMPLE ROSE).

Obverse description : Le roi couronné, debout de face, portant une armure et tenant une épée de sa main droite, le tout dans un polylobe bouleté.

Obverse translation : (Édouard, fils aîné du roi d’Angleterre, prince d’Aquitaine).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + AVXLLIVM* MEVM* A* DOMINO* L, (PONCTUATION PAR SIMPLE ROSE).

Reverse description : Croix feuillue et glandée portant un quadrilobe évidé en cœur, cantonnée aux 1 et 4 d’un lis, aux 2 et 3 d’un léopard, le tout dans un polylobe bouleté (seize lobes).

Reverse translation : (Le Seigneur est mon aide).

Historical background

AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE

(1362-1372)

Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376) was the eldest son of Edward III Plantagenet and Philippa of Hainaut. He cut his teeth at the battle of Crécy in 1346 where he was strongly impressed by the chivalrous attitude of John the Blind, King of Bohemia, who preferred to die rather than bear the dishonor of defeat. He will take as heraldic arms ostrich feathers which the King of Bohemia already wore. Edward the Black Prince is in Aquitaine in 1355 and begins a ride in Poitou the following year. He crushes the French at Poitiers and takes King Jean le Bon prisoner. By the Treaty of Brétigny in May 1360, the independence of Aquitaine was confirmed. Edward was its first prince from 1362. He arrived in Bordeaux in 1363. The war resumed with France in 1369. After the first English defeats in Aquitaine, the Black Prince returned to England in 1371 and, the following year, renounce his principality. He died in 1376. His father Edward III died the following year. It is Richard II, son of the Black Prince, who ascends the throne.