v42_0487 - AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - HENRY II PLANTAGENÊT Denier

AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - HENRY II PLANTAGENÊT Denier XF

MONNAIES 42 (2010)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
Realised price : 210.00 €
Number of bids : 7
Maximum bid : 210.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: 1152-1169

Metal : silver

Diameter : 17,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 0,71 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan irrégulier présentant des éclatements de flan. Exemplaire recouvert d’une jolie patine grise de médaillier. De petites faiblesses de frappe au droit

Catalogue references :

Bd.469 (5 f.) - PA.2758 (60/2) - E.1b (C) - Elias7 (70 £)

Obverse

Obverse legend : + HENRICVS REX.

Obverse description : Croix.

Obverse translation : (Henri, roi).

Reverse

Reverse legend : °+° / AQVI / TANI / °E°.

Reverse description : en quatre lignes dans le champ.

Reverse translation : (Aquitaine).

Historical background

AQUITAINE - DUCHY OF AQUITAINE - HENRY II PLANTAGENÊT

(1152-1169)

Henri Plantagenêt, Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou, Maine and Touraine, married Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of King Louis VII of France whom he had just repudiated. Henri thus became Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou. In 1154 he inherited the throne of England and thus became the most powerful lord in the West. In 1169, he left the administration of Aquitaine to his son Richard Coeur de Lion (1169-1199).