v11_0708 - FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - LOUIS I OF CRÉCY Florin n.d.

FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - LOUIS I OF CRÉCY Florin n.d. XF

MONNAIES 11 (2002)
Starting price : 1 143.37 €
Estimate : 1 829.39 €
Realised price : 1 143.37 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 1 173.86 €

Type : Florin

Date: n.d.

Metal : gold

Diameter : 19,5 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 3,40 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Ce florin est frappé sur un flan légèrement voilé et présente une trace sur la tranche à 5 heures. Les reliefs sont assez nets au niveau du manteau du roi

Catalogue references :

Bd.2213 (50 à 70 f.) - F.95 p.139 - Vernier1 - NP.38/118-119

Obverse

Obverse legend : L’. FLAD. - COMES.

Obverse description : Grande fleur de lis épanouie.

Obverse translation : (Louis, comte de Flandre).

Reverse

Reverse legend : (TRÈFLE) S. IONA-NNES. B. (TÊTE DE LION).

Reverse description : Saint Jean-Baptiste debout de face, nimbé, vêtu d'une peau de mouton, tenant de la main gauche un sceptre cruciforme orné d’un annelet, et bénissant de la main droite.

Reverse translation : (Saint Jean Baptiste).

Historical background

FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - LOUIS I OF CRÉCY

(1322-1346)

Louis I (1304-1346) succeeded his grandfather, Robert de Béthune, in 1322. He married Marguerite de France (1310-1382), the daughter of Philippe V le Long. He won with his cousin, Philippe VI de Valois, the victory of Cassel in 1328 over the bourgeois militias. He is torn between his duty as a vassal to the King of France and the economic choices that push him towards England. At the start of the Hundred Years' War, he was driven out by Van Artevelde who rallied to Edward III of England. He was killed at the battle of Crécy on August 26, 1346..