v22_0511 - DOMBES - PRINCIPALITY OF DOMBES - GASTON D'ORLÉANS AND MARIE DE BOURBON-MONTPENSIER Liard

DOMBES - PRINCIPALITY OF DOMBES - GASTON D ORLÉANS AND MARIE DE BOURBON-MONTPENSIER Liard F

MONNAIES 22 (2005)
Starting price : 80.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot

Type : Liard

Date: 1628

Mint name / Town : Trévoux

Metal : billon

Diameter : 14,5 mm

Orientation dies : 7 h.

Weight : 0,63 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Ce liard est frappé sur un flan irrégulier et court laissant une grande partie des légendes hors flan. Aspect de surface granuleux et lecture du millésime incertaine (seule la base du 8 est lisible)

Catalogue references :

Bd.1079 (2 f.) - PA.5179 (117/7) - Div./Db167

Obverse

Obverse legend : + GAST. ET. M. S[...].

Obverse description : MG couronnés entre trois lis posés 2 et 1.

Obverse translation : (Gaston et Marie, souverain de Dombes).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + DNS. ADIV[...]8.

Reverse description : Croix du Saint-Esprit.

Reverse translation : (Le Seigneur est notre soutien, 1628).

Historical background

DOMBES - PRINCIPALITY OF DOMBES - GASTON D'ORLÉANS AND MARIE DE BOURBON-MONTPENSIER

(1626-29/05/1627)

Marie, only daughter of Henri de Dombes and Henriette-Catherine de Joyeuse, was born on October 15, 1605. Because of his fortune, Henri IV had a marriage certificate signed with his second son, Nicolas Duke of Orléans, while she was only three years old. Nicolas died in 1611 so that Marie de Médicis proposed her son Gaston, Duke of Anjou. The union of Gaston and Marie took place in Nantes on August 5, 1626. She gave birth to a daughter on May 29, 1627 but died after giving birth on June 4, leaving the usufruct of the principality of Dombes to her husband Gaston, brother of the King of France Louis XIII. The coinage in the names of Gaston and Marie began in 1627 and continued until 1629.