v22_0027 - BRITTANY - DUCHY OF BRITTANY - JEAN III CALLED THE GOOD Double denier

BRITTANY - DUCHY OF BRITTANY - JEAN III CALLED THE GOOD Double denier XF

MONNAIES 22 (2005)
Starting price : 50.00 €
Estimate : 90.00 €
Realised price : 80.00 €
Number of bids : 6
Maximum bid : 166.00 €

Type : Double denier

Date: 1340-1341

Metal : billon

Diameter : 19,5 mm

Orientation dies : 8 h.

Weight : 1,10 g.

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan irrégulier et un peu court. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise et présentant au droit d’infimes concrétions vertes

Catalogue references :

Bd.55 (4 f.) - B.- - PA.624 (18/7) - NP.10/119

Obverse

Obverse legend : IOHAN-NES DVX.

Obverse description : B-R / I-T dans le champ autour de deux mouchetures d’hermine coupant la légende.

Obverse translation : (Jean, duc des Bretons).

Reverse

Reverse legend : (ÉCU DE BRETAGNE) SIG[NVM] - DEI VIVI.

Reverse description : Croix pesudo-fleurdelisée au pied formé par une moucheture d’hermine.

Reverse translation : (Signe de Dieu vivant).

Historical background

BRITTANY - DUCHY OF BRITTANY - JEAN III CALLED THE GOOD

(1312-1341)

Jean III (1286-1341) is the son of Arthur II of Brittany. His father made him viscount of Limoges in 1301, then he became duke of Brittany in 1305, but died in 1312. Jean III, known as "le Bon", therefore in turn became duke of Brittany. In 1314, he gave the Viscountcy of Limoges to his brother Guy VII (1314-1317). After Guy's death, he instituted the viscountcy as a dower for the benefit of his wife Isabelle de Castille, but she died in 1328. He remarried Jeanne de Savoie in 1329 and offered Limoges as a dower to his second wife. He became Earl of Richmond in 1333 and paid homage to Edward III of England for this earldom. Without an heir, he married his niece Jeanne to Charles de Blois and died in Caen in 1341 after having supported Philippe VI in the Hundred Years War which began.

BRITTANY - DUCHY OF BRITTANY - JEAN III CALLED THE GOOD Obole VF

450.00 €

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