v08_1299 - BRABANT - DUCHY OF BRABANT - MARY OF BURGUNDY Briquet 1480 Anvers

BRABANT - DUCHY OF BRABANT - MARY OF BURGUNDY Briquet 1480 Anvers XF

MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 121.96 €
Estimate : 213.43 €
Realised price : 134.16 €

Type : Briquet

Date: 1480

Mint name / Town : Anvers

Quantity minted : 5296200

Metal : billon

Millesimal fineness : 798 ‰

Diameter : 27,5 mm

Orientation dies : 9 h.

Weight : 2,66 g.

Coments on the condition:

Flan régulier. Monnaie légèrement décentrée au revers. Patine grise

Catalogue references :

Bd.2411 (3 f.) - W.520 - GH.40-1b - NP.7/22 - AMVBH.46-47

Obverse

Obverse legend : + MARIA: DEI: G: DVCISS: BG: BR: Z: LI (TOUR), (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX ANNELETS SUPERPOSÉS).

Obverse description : Lion à gauche posant sa patte droite sur un écu écartelé, aux 1 et 4 de Bourgogne moderne, au 2 mi-parti de Bourgogne ancien et de Brabant, au 3 mi-parti de Bourgogne ancien et de Limbourg.

Obverse translation : (Marie, par la grâce de Dieu, duchesse de Bourgogne, Brabant et Limbourg).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + BENEDIC: HEREDITATI: TVE: A: 1480.

Reverse description : Croix fleuronnée.

Reverse translation : (Béni soit ta filiation).

Historical background

BRABANT - DUCHY OF BRABANT - MARY OF BURGUNDY

(1477-1482)

Marie was born in Brussels in 1457 from the union of Charles the Bold and Isabelle de Bourbon. When her father died in 1477, King Louis XI of France, her godfather and guardian, attempted to marry her to the Dauphin Charles in order to occupy his estates. Marie yielded some seigniories and Arras to the king of France, but she married Maximilian of Austria on August 18, 1477; this marriage was at the origin of the War of Succession of Burgundy. She is the mother of Philippe le Beau (born June 12, 1478) and Marguerite of Austria. She died at the age of 25 from a fall from a horse and was buried in 1482 in the Church of Our Lady in Bruges where her magnificent tomb is still preserved..