Live auction - bfe_1035743 - AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - EDWARD III OF ENGLAND Gros tournois à la couronne
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Live starting : 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
Catalogue references :
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 (Eliard, 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 crown on the reverse (Eliard, no. 60e, p. 97). Elias dates these gros tournois with the crown to 1351, while other authors have proposed later dates. The presence of a example in the monetary deposit of Xaintray (Deux-Sèvres, currently under study by A. Clairand) buried in 1352 containing a example, supports Elias's argument. This monetary type is inspired by the gros à la queue ordered at the end of the reign of Philip VI, with its cross cutting the legend at the bottom. The château tournois has been replaced by a crown
Variety with a ringlet above the crown on the reverse (Eliard, no. 60e, p. 97). Elias dates these gros tournois with the crown to 1351, while other authors have proposed later dates. The presence of a example in the monetary deposit of Xaintray (Deux-Sèvres, currently under study by A. Clairand) buried in 1352 containing a example, supports Elias's argument. This monetary type is inspired by the gros à la queue ordered at the end of the reign of Philip VI, with its cross cutting the legend at the bottom. The château 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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