v17_2630 - ARDENNES - JETONS FACTORY IN SEDAN Jeton LOUIS XIII 1643
MONNAIES 17 (2002)
Starting price : 15.00 €
Estimate : 30.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 15.00 €
Estimate : 30.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Jeton LOUIS XIII
Date: 1643
Mint name / Town : Sedan
Metal : brass
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,43 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Forte usure de circulation sur les deux faces. Léger décentrement. Couleur jaune
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LVDOVIC. XIII. D. G. F. ET. NA. REX.
Obverse description : Buste drapé et cuirassé, la tête laurée, de Louis XIII à gauche.
Obverse translation : (Louis XIII par la grâce de Dieu roi de France et de Navarre).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AD * SPEM * SPES * ADDITA * GALLIS 1643.
Reverse description : Dauphin enlaçant une ancre ; à l’exergue le millésime.
Reverse translation : (À l'espoir s'ajoute l'espoir de la Gaule).
Commentary
Variété de légende avec F. ET. NA au droit . La série avec le dauphin enlaçant une ancre est très certainement de Sedan mais comporte quelques différences par rapport aux autres exemplaires. L’axe des coins est à douze heures et non plus six, on note de légers décentrements, enfin, il y a parfois absence de l’étoile à cinq branches qui en constitue le signe distinctif.
Legend variety with F. ET. NA on the obverse. The series with the dolphin embracing an anchor is most certainly from Sedan but has some differences compared to the other examples. The axis of the dies is at twelve o'clock and no longer six, there are slight decenterings, finally, there is sometimes absence of the five-pointed star which constitutes its distinctive sign
Legend variety with F. ET. NA on the obverse. The series with the dolphin embracing an anchor is most certainly from Sedan but has some differences compared to the other examples. The axis of the dies is at twelve o'clock and no longer six, there are slight decenterings, finally, there is sometimes absence of the five-pointed star which constitutes its distinctive sign
Historical background
ARDENNES - JETONS FACTORY IN SEDAN
(1614-1642)
A factory of banal tokens exists in Sedan from the years 1613-1614. It was entrusted to Daniel Goffin, a Protestant engraver based in Givonne near Sedan. The tokens produced are imitations of royal tokens and are made using mechanical tools with which the Principality of Sedan is equipped. A five-pointed star is found as a different on many of these tokens. This workshop probably closed with the abandonment of the principality to France in 1642. Note, a study by Jules Rouyer on a French-looking token factory in Sedan at the time of Louis XIII, Revue numismatique, 1887.
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