bfe_294847 - FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - LOUIS I OF CRÉCY - MARY OF BURGUNDY Double briquet

FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - LOUIS I OF CRÉCY - MARY OF BURGUNDY Double briquet XF

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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 210.00 €

Type : Double briquet

Date: 1480

Mint name / Town : Bruges

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 798 ‰

Diameter : 27,5 mm

Orientation dies : 7 h.

Weight : 2,99 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Ce double briquet est frappé sur un flan ébréché. Exemplaire recouvert d’une légère patine grise hétérogène

Catalogue references :

Bd.2274 (4 f.) - GH.39-3

Predigree :

Cette monnaie provient de la vente Elsen 65, lot n° 1625

Obverse

Obverse legend : + MARIA* DVCISSA* BG* COMIT’ F, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX ÉTOILES À CINQ RAIS SUPERPOSÉES).

Obverse description : Deux lions assis face à face sur un trait d'exergue et surmontés d'un briquet.

Obverse translation : (Marie, duchesse de Bourgogne, comtesse de Flandre).

Reverse

Reverse legend : X SALVV’X FACX PP-LM’X TVV’X DNE 1480, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX SAUTOIRS SUPERPOSÉS OU PAR SIMPLE SAUTOIR).

Reverse description : Écu écartelé, aux 1 et 4 de Bourgogne moderne, au 2 mi-parti de Bourgogne ancien et de Brabant, au 3 mi-parti de Bourgogne ancien et de Limbourg, brochant sur une croix fleuronnée.

Reverse translation : (Seigneur protège ton peuple).

Historical background

FLANDERS - COUNTY OF FLANDERS - LOUIS I OF CRÉCY - MARY OF BURGUNDY

(1477-1482)

Marie was born in Brussels in 1457 from the union of Charles the Bold and Isabelle de Bourbon. When her father died in 1477, King Louis XI of France, her godfather and guardian, attempted to marry her to the Dauphin Charles in order to occupy his estates. Marie yielded some seigniories and Arras to the king of France, but she married Maximilian of Austria on August 18, 1477; this marriage was at the origin of the War of Succession of Burgundy. She is the mother of Philippe le Beau (born June 12, 1478) and Marguerite of Austria. She died at the age of 25 from a fall from a horse and was buried in 1482 in the Church of Our Lady in Bruges where her magnificent tomb is still preserved..