v50_0180 - AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE Pavillon d’or

AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE Pavillon d’or AU

MONNAIES 50 (2011)
Starting price : 4 900.00 €
Estimate : 7 500.00 €
Realised price : 4 900.00 €

Type : Pavillon d’or

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : La Rochelle

Metal : gold

Diameter : 31 mm

Orientation dies : 1 h.

Weight : 5,34 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Ce pavillon d’or est frappé sur un flan large et régulier. Exemplaire décentré au droit et présentant de hauts reliefs

Catalogue references :

Bd.508 - PA.3035 (64/14 var.) - E.158 (R) - Elias244

Obverse

Obverse legend : ED* PO* GN* REG A - NGL* PNPS* AQVI, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX QUADRILOBES SUPERPOSÉS).

Obverse description : Le prince debout de face, drapé, tenant une épée de sa main droite, sous un dais gothique orné de quatre plumes d’autruche tournée à droite ; à ses pieds deux lions.

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

Reverse

Reverse legend : + DNS* AIVTO* Z* PTECTO* ME* Z* IIP* SPAIT* COR* MEVM* R, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX ROSES SUPERPOSÉES).

Reverse description : Croix glandée évidée et portant en cœur un E oncial, accostée aux 1 et 4 d’un léopard, aux 2 et 3 d’un lis, le tout dans un quadrilobe anglé accosté de huit trèfles évidés.

Reverse translation : (“Dominus adjutor et protector meum et in ipso speravit cor meum” Psaume XXVIII - 8 / Dieu est mon aide et mon protecteur, et mon cœur lui appartient).

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.