Live auction - bfe_1094741 - COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - URBAN V (Guillaume de Grimoard) Quart de gros
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Live starting : Type : Quart de gros
Date: (1362-1370)
Date: s.m.
Mint name / Town : Avignon
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 1,21 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Ce quart de gros est frappé sur un flan irrégulier et voilé. Monnaie ayant été nettoyée présentant des faiblesses de frappe
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : °VRBANVS: QVINTUS°, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX ANNELETS SUPERPOSÉS).
Obverse description : Mitre papale ; en dessous, PVP.
Obverse translation : (Urbain V).
Reverse
Reverse legend : +: SANCTVS: PETRVS:, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX ANNELETS SUPERPOSÉS).
Reverse description : Croix cantonnée aux 1 et 4 d’une tiare, aux 2 et 3 de deux clefs de saint Pierre croisées.
Reverse translation : (Saint Pierre).
Historical background
COMTAT-VENAISSIN - AVIGNON - URBAN V (Guillaume de Grimoard)
(28/09/1362-09/12/1370)
Guillaume de Grimoard, French Benedictine and scholar, was elected pope on September 28, 1362 and consecrated on November 6 following under the name of Urban V. Founder of the University of Krakow, he tried, in 1367, to bring the Curia back to Rome , but after three years of opposition returns to Avignon. In 1368, he condemned the doctrines on poverty of the Franciscan Guillaume Foullechat. He died in Avignon on December 9, 1370.
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