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Live auction - fwo_659374 - CRUSADES - PRINCIPALITY OF ACHAEA - FLORENT DE HAINAUT Florin d'or n.d. Clarentia

CRUSADES - PRINCIPALITY OF ACHAEA - FLORENT DE HAINAUT Florin d or n.d. Clarentia XF
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Estimate : 1 800 €
Price : 1 187 €
Maximum bid : 1 380 €
End of the sale : 15 June 2021 18:54:14
bidders : 3 bidders
Type : Florin d'or
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Clarentia
Quantity minted : -
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 986 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,34 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Ce florin est frappé sur un flan large et légèrement irrégulier présentant de petits éclatements. Des faiblesses sur les motifs centraux
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : + FLOR-EXCHA.
Obverse description : Grande fleur de lis épanouie.
Obverse translation : (Florence).

Reverse


Reverse legend : .S. IOHA-NNES. B (MM).
Reverse description : Saint Jean Baptiste debout de face, nimbé, barbu, vêtu de sa peau de bête, tendant la main droite et tenant un sceptre cruciforme bouleté.
Reverse translation : (Saint Jean-Baptiste).

Historical background


CRUSADES - PRINCIPALITY OF ACHAEA - FLORENT DE HAINAUT

(1289-1297)

Charles I of Anjou then his son engaged in haggling in order to buy the title of Latin Emperor of the East (1277) while the Byzantines took over Constantinople in 1261. Florent married the daughter of Guillaume de Villehardouin in 1289 and becomes prince of Achaea. When Florent de Hainaut died in 1297, Charles II of Anjou controlled all the Frankish principalities.

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