bry_819853 - CHARLES X, CARDINAL OF BOURBON Quart d'écu, croix de face 1594 Nantes

CHARLES X, CARDINAL OF BOURBON Quart d écu, croix de face 1594 Nantes VF

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Type : Quart d'écu, croix de face

Date: 1594

Mint name / Town : Nantes

Quantity minted : 292014

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰

Diameter : 29 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 9,52 g.

Coments on the condition:

Ce quart d’écu est frappé sur un flan irrégulier et présente des faiblesses de frappe. Rayure dans le premier canton de la croix du droit et exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise de médaillier

Catalogue references :

C.1487 - L.1021 - Dy.1177 - Sb.4670 (11 ex.)

Predigree :

Exemplaire provenant de la vente Monnaies d’Antan 1, n° 697

Obverse

Obverse legend : + CAROLVS. X. D: G. FRANC. REX. 1594.

Obverse description : Croix fleurdelisée.

Obverse translation : (Charles X, par la grâce de Dieu, roi des Francs).

Reverse

Reverse legend : SIT. NOMEN. DOMINI (MM) BENE.DICTVM. - T.

Reverse description : Écu de France couronné, accosté de II - II ; lettre d'atelier à la pointe de l'écu.

Reverse translation : (Béni soit le nom du Seigneur).

Historical background

CHARLES X, CARDINAL OF BOURBON

(02/08/1589-9/05/1590)

Charles X, uncle and godfather of Henri IV and first cousin of François de Lorraine, was born in 1523. Cardinal and papal legate in Avignon from 1565 to 1590, it was he who had blessed the marriage of Marguerite de Valois and Henri IV on the eve of Saint-Barthélemy. On the death of the Duke of Alençon, last brother of Henry III, he was recognized by the League and by Philip II of Spain as heir presumptive to the crown. Recognized by Henri, in 1588, as his closest relative, he was arrested at Blois on December 23, 1588 while the Guises were being assassinated. He was proclaimed king by the Leaguers after the murder of Henri III on August 2, 1589 but died a prisoner at Fontenay-le-Comte on May 9, 1590..

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bry_819853 - CHARLES X, CARDINAL OF BOURBON Quart d'écu, croix de face 1594 Nantes

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Historical background

CHARLES X, CARDINAL OF BOURBON

(02/08/1589-9/05/1590)

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