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Live auction - bfe_382191 - COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - SIXTUS V (Felice Peretti di Grottammare) Double sol parisis ou six blancs

COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - SIXTUS V (Felice Peretti di Grottammare) Double sol parisis ou six blancs VF
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Estimate : 300 €
Price : 190 €
Maximum bid : 200 €
End of the sale : 01 March 2016 16:43:46
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Double sol parisis ou six blancs
Date: 1587
Mint name / Town : Carpentras
Metal : billon
Diameter : 25,7 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,70 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Ce double sol parisis est frappé sur un flan assez large et irrégulier. Exemplaire présentant quelques petites faiblesses de frappe mais ayant conservé une partie de son brillant de frappe
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection Yves Caille

Obverse


Obverse legend : *SIXTVS* V* PONTIF* MAX* 1587* - * - (TROIS MONTS).
Obverse description : S sous une tiare pontificale coupant la légende en haut.
Obverse translation : (Sixte V, grand pontife, 1587).

Reverse


Reverse legend : *C* - KA. DE. BOVRBON. CARD. LEGA. AVEN..
Reverse description : Croix cléchée fleurdelisée.
Reverse translation : (Charles de Bourbon, cardinal et légat d’Avignon).

Commentary


D’après Jean René de Mey, ce type monétaire pour Carpentras, n’est connu qu’à trois exemplaires aux millésimes 1587 et 1589. Le millésime 1590 est connu depuis la publication d’un exemplaire dans MONNAIES XXII, n° 381. Sur cet exemplaire, nous trouvons trois monts en haut à droite de la tiare.

Historical background


COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - SIXTUS V (Felice Peretti di Grottammare)

(01/05/1585-27/08/1590)

Sixtus V was born into a poor family and was brought up by the Franciscans. On April 24, 1585, he was elected pope at the age of sixty-four and consecrated the following May 1. He published in 1587 the revised edition of the Septuagint Bible as well as the revised edition of the Vulgate. In 1589, he excommunicated Henry III for the assassination of the Duke of Guise. He died in Rome on August 27, 1590.

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