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E-auction 143-82972 - fjt_06532 - CHAMBRE DES COMPTES DU ROI / ACCOUNTS CHAMBER OF THE KING HENRI IV 1596

CHAMBRE DES COMPTES DU ROI / ACCOUNTS CHAMBER OF THE KING HENRI IV XF
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Estimate : 45 €
Price : 30 €
Maximum bid : 35 €
End of the sale : 11 January 2016 18:47:00
bidders : 6 bidders
Type : HENRI IV
Date: 1596
Metal : brass
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Edge : lisse
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : CAMERAE. COMPVTOR. REGIORVM.
Obverse description : Écus de France et de Navarre entourés des deux colliers des ordres du Roi.
Obverse translation : POUR LA CHAMBRE DES COMPTES DU ROI.

Reverse


Reverse legend : TERRAS. ASTREA. REVISIT ; À L'EXERGUE : SVBDVCENDIS. RATIONIBVS. 1596.
Reverse description : Astrée debout de face au milieu de nuages, tenant une main de justice entourée d'une palme.
Reverse translation : Astrée revient pour voir la terre ; à l'exegue : Pour faire les comptes. 1596.

Commentary


Il serait intéressant chercher à comprendre pourquoi les références à l’astronomie ou à l’astrologie sont si nombreuses dans la série de la Chambre des Comptes du roi. Ici, le revers est une constellation.
Dans la mythologie grecque, Astrée ou Astrapé est la fille de Zeus et Thémis (ou d'Astraéos et d'Éos selon les versions).
Elle et sa mère sont la personnification de la Justice. Astrée est la dernière des immortelles à vivre parmi les humains durant l'Âge d'Or. Quand l'humanité est devenue corrompue à l'Âge de Bronze, elle quitta la Terre et Zeus la plaça dans le Ciel sous la forme de la constellation de la Vierge, tandis que la Balance de la Justice (son principal attribut) devint la constellation de la Balance (voir wikipedia http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astr%C3%A9e_%28mythologie%29 ).

Historical background


CHAMBRE DES COMPTES DU ROI / ACCOUNTS CHAMBER OF THE KING

Like the King's Council, the Chamber of Accounts is a dismemberment of the former king's court, in the part responsible for overseeing the royal domain, handling finances and auditing the accounts of the king's agents. His role was to register edicts and declarations concerning the estate, letters of ennoblement, naturalization, pensions, etc. She also recorded the marriage contracts of the royal family, the peace treaties. The Chamber of Accounts had civil and criminal jurisdiction over its own officers and over offenses committed within its enclosure near the Sainte-Chapelle. It extended its jurisdiction to the entire kingdom in certain areas (war, navy, colonies, royal treasury, roads and bridges, etc.) but the provincial chambers of accounts removed certain accounts from its jurisdiction. The Chamber of Accounts boasted of being the oldest in the kingdom, before Parliament. Its officers enjoyed important privileges: nobility, title of king's advisers, franc-salé, tax exemptions, corvées, etc..

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