Live auction - fwo_556649 - AUSTRIAN NETHERLANDS - MARGRAVIATE OF BURGAU - MARIA-THERESA Thaler 1765 Gunzburg

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Estimate :	220 €
Price :	165 €
Maximum bid :	245 €
End of the sale :	28 January 2020 19:51:53
bidders :	5 bidders

Type : Thaler

Date: 1765

Mint name / Town : Gunzburg

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 875 ‰

Diameter : 41 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 27,9 g.

Edge : IUSTITIA (fleuron) * (fleuron) ET [...] * (fleuron) * (fleuron) CLEMENTIA * (fleuron) * (fleuron) [...]

Rarity : R1

Catalogue references :

Dav.1147

Obverse

Obverse legend : M. THERESIA. D: G. - R. IMP. GE. HU. BO. REG..

Obverse description : Buste cuirassé, drapé et diadémé de Marie-Thérèse à droite ; au-dessous S.C..

Obverse translation : (Marie-Thérèse, par la grâce de Dieu, impératrice des Romains, reine de Germanie, Hongrie et de Bohême).

Reverse

Reverse legend : ARCHID. AUST. DUX. - BURG. CO. TYR. 1765. (DEUX BÂTONS NOUEUX).

Reverse description : Aigle bicéphale couronnée et nimbée tenant une épée et un sceptre ; l'aigle porte un écu à multiples quartiers sommé d'une couronne et entouré du collier de l'Ordre de la Toison d'or ; un cartouche contenant la lettre G entre les plumes de la queue de l’aigle.

Reverse translation : (Archiduc d'Autriche, duc de Bourgogne, comte de Tyrol).

Commentary

Ce type monétaire, avec un buste sans voile, fut frappé à Gunzbourg en 1764 et 1765.

Historical background

AUSTRIAN NETHERLANDS - MARGRAVIATE OF BURGAU - MARIA-THERESA

(10/10/1740-29/11/1780)

Marie-Thérèse (13/05/1717-29/11/1780) is the daughter of the Emperor Charles VI who modified the order of devolution of descent so that his daughter could inherit the crown. Marrying François III of Lorraine (1708-1765) in 1736, she became queen of Bohemia and Hungary on the death of her father in 1740, and her husband, François I, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1745. After the death of her husband, her son Joseph II became emperor but the empress kept her powers until her death in 1780, in particular in the Austrian Netherlands.