v22_0256 - AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE Chaise d’or

AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE Chaise d’or XF

MONNAIES 22 (2005)
Starting price : 6 500.00 €
Estimate : 10 000.00 €
unsold lot

Type : Chaise d’or

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Bordeaux

Metal : gold

Diameter : 27,5 mm

Orientation dies : 4 h.

Weight : 5,25 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Cette chaise d’or est frappée sur un flan large, légèrement irrégulier. Petite faiblesse de frappe à 1 heure au droit. Le buste du prince est très bien venu à la frappe

Catalogue references :

Bd.506 (100 f.) - PA.2934-2935 (64/11) - E.143 (RR) - Elias241 (5300 £)

Obverse

Obverse legend : ED* PO* GNS* REGIS* ANGLIE* PNS* AQITANIE, (PONCTUATION PAR SIMPLE ROSE À CINQ PÉTALES).

Obverse description : Le prince assis de face sur un trône orné de quatre pinacles, couronné de trois roses, drapé, cuirassé et tenant un sceptre de sa main droite.

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

Reverse

Reverse legend : + DEVS* IVDEX* IVSTVS* FORTIS* Z* PACIEN* B.

Reverse description : Croix couronnée évidée en cœur et portant une rose à cinq pétales, cantonnée aux 1 et 4 d’un léopard, aux 2 et 3 d’un lis, le tout dans un quadrilobe anglé, cantonné de huit roses à cinq pétales.

Reverse translation : (Dieu est un juge droit, fort et patient - Vulgate, ps. 7-12).

Commentary

Rarissime monnaie du Prince noir.

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.