v20_0768 - COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - JULIUS II (JULIEN DE LA ROVÈRE) Écu au soleil

COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - JULIUS II (JULIEN DE LA ROVÈRE) Écu au soleil AU

MONNAIES 20 (2004)
Starting price : 1 000.00 €
Estimate : 2 000.00 €
Realised price : 1 000.00 €

Type : Écu au soleil

Date: (1578-1585)

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Avignon

Metal : gold

Diameter : 28,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 3,35 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Cet écu est frappé sur un flan assez large, légèrement irrégulier. Petite faiblesse de frappe à gauche de l’écu central du droit se retrouvant sur deux fleurons de la croix du revers

Catalogue references :

PA.4279 (pl. 95/10) - Bd.- - PC.625 - NP.19/181

Obverse

Obverse legend : (SOLEIL) JVLIVS:. - : PAPA: SECVMDVS: T.

Obverse description : Écu pontifical sous la tiare pontificale ; un écu coupant la légende à droite de l’écu.

Obverse translation : (Jules II, pape).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + GEORGIVS: DE: AMBASIA: CAR: ET: LEGA: T:.

Reverse description : Croix fleuronnée (feuilles de chêne et gland).

Reverse translation : (Georges d’Amboise, cardinal et légat).

Historical background

COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - JULIUS II (JULIEN DE LA ROVÈRE)

(1503-1513)

Julius II was born in Verona between 1441 and 1443. Sixtus IV, his uncle, appointed him Bishop of Carpentras. He was subsequently Archbishop of Avignon and Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia before being elected Pope in 1503 on the death of Pius III. He concludes with Louis XII and the German emperor Maximilian, the League of Cambrai (1508) but from 1510 the pope opposed the king of France. From 1512 the French were driven out of Italy. Julius II placed in the courtyard of Belvedere many antiques that he bought such as the Laocoön. During his pontificate, Raphael executed the paintings in the Chamber of the Signature and those in the Chamber of Heliodorus in the Vatican. He died in Rome in 1513.