Live auction - fwo_392792 - BOHEMIA - KINGDOM OF BOHEMIA - JOHN I THE BLIND Gros de Prague n.d. Prague

BOHEMIA - KINGDOM OF BOHEMIA - JOHN I THE BLIND Gros de Prague n.d. Prague XF

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Estimate :	70 €
Price :	30 €
Maximum bid :	50 €
End of the sale :	26 July 2016 15:21:30
bidders :	1 bidder

Type : Gros de Prague

Date: c. 1320

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Prague

Metal : silver

Diameter : 30 mm

Orientation dies : 11 h.

Weight : 3,72 g.

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire bien centré avec quelques faiblesses de frappe. Recouvert d’une fine patine grise aux reflets mordorés

Catalogue references :

Caste.n° 9 p. 9

Obverse

Obverse legend : + IOHANNES° PRIMVS (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX ANNELETS SUPERPOSÉS) ; LÉGENDE EXTÉRIEURE : + DEI (DEUX ANNELETS) GRATIA (TRÈFLE) REX (DEUX ANNELETS) BOEMIE.

Obverse description : Couronne fleurdelisée.

Obverse translation : (Jean premier, par la grâce de Dieu, roi de Bohême).

Reverse

Reverse legend : *+* GROSSI . PRAGENSES.

Reverse description : Lion couronné passant à gauche, à queue bifide.

Reverse translation : (Gros de Prague).

Commentary

Le gros de Prague fut créé par Wenceslas II (1278-1305), roi de Bohême et de Pologne. Au moment de son émission il vaut 12 pfennigs et s'appelle un "Pragergroschen". Ils sont frappés en Bohême par des artistes italiens que Wenceslas a fait venir. Ces gros sont d'abord imités en Misnie, puis dans toute l'Allemagne. La frappe a dû commencer vers 1280. Jean est roi de Bohême en 1310 et continue cette fabrication de gros de Prague.

Historical background

BOHEMIA - KINGDOM OF BOHEMIA - JOHN I THE BLIND

(1310-1346)

Jean de Luxembourg, known as Jean l'Aveugle (1296-1346), is the son of Henry VIII. He first married Elizabeth of Bohemia, daughter of Wenceslas II. King of Bohemia in 1310, he was a great friend of Philip VI and the father-in-law of John II the Good. Born in 1296, he was killed at the battle of Crécy in 1346. His heroic death inspired the Black Prince who always wore a helmet surmounted by ostrich feathers, in memory of Jean the Blind who himself wore them on his helmet . He is the father of Charles IV of Luxembourg (1316-1378), King of Bohemia and of the Romans in 1346 and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1355.