Live auction - fwo_419126 - FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - CHARLES THE BOLD Florin d'or de Bourgogne n.d. Bruges

FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - CHARLES THE BOLD Florin d or de Bourgogne n.d. Bruges VF

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Estimate :	1 200 €
Price :	720 €
Maximum bid :	840 €
End of the sale :	14 March 2017 17:31:40
bidders :	2 bidders

Type : Florin d'or de Bourgogne

Date: (1467-1474)

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Bruges

Quantity minted : 383900

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 792 ‰

Diameter : 24 mm

Orientation dies : 7 h.

Weight : 3,32 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Ce florin présente une usure régulière assez prononcée au revers

Catalogue references :

AMVB30 - Del.493

Obverse

Obverse legend : KAROLV - SX DEIX - GRAX CO - X FLAND’, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX SAUTOIRS SUPERPOSÉS).

Obverse description : Écu écartelé, aux 1 et 4 de Bourgogne moderne, aux 2 mi-parti de Bourgogne ancien et de Brabant, au 3 mi-parti de Bourgogne ancien et de Limbourg, sur le tout de Flandre, brochant sur une croix coupant la légende.

Obverse translation : (Charles, par la grâce de Dieu, comte de Flandre).

Reverse

Reverse legend : SANCTVSX - ANDREAS, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX SAUTOIRS SUPERPOSÉS).

Reverse description : Saint André nimbé, debout de face, la tête à gauche, tenant sa croix devant lui (croix coupant la légende en haut et en bas).

Reverse translation : (Saint André).

Commentary

Charles le Téméraire se plaçait sous la protection de saint André qui, pour ne pas être crucifié comme le Christ, avait fait placer la croix de son supplice en diagonale. Les florins de Bourgogne de la première émission ne furent frappés que pour le Brabant (Louvain) et la Flandre (Bruges).

Historical background

FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - CHARLES THE BOLD

(06/15/1467-01/5/1477)

Charles (1433-1477) was the son of Philip the Good and Isabella of Portugal. He first married Catherine of France (1428-1446) in 1440, then Isabelle de Bourbon in 1454, finally Marguerite of York, sister of Edward IV, in 1468. He succeeded his father on June 15, 1467. Charles sequesters Louis XI at the Péronne interview and accuses him of treason. The king submits. Charles helps his brother-in-law Édouard to reconquer his kingdom in 1471. He besieges Beauvais in July 1472 (heroic resistance from Jeanne Huchette), but has to lift the siege. He then tries to recreate a kingdom of Lotharingia with the help of Emperor Frederick III. It's a fail. Charles unsuccessfully besieged Cologne in 1475. He then threw himself on the Lorraine of René II and took Nancy on September 30. Charles was defeated by the Swiss on June 21, 1476 at Murten. Charles was killed besieging Nancy on January 5, 1477. His daughter Marie, born in 1457, succeeded him.