v28_1365 - GERMANY - BRANDENBURG FRANCONIA - FREDERICK OF ANSBACH AND SIGISMUND OF KULMBACH Florin d'or n.d. Schwaben

XF/VF

MONNAIES 28 (2007)
Starting price : 400.00 €
Estimate : 650.00 €
unsold lot

Type : Florin d'or

Date: (1486-1495)

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Schwaben

Metal : gold

Diameter : 23 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 3,18 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Flan large mais légèrement fendu. Petite faiblesse de frappe

Catalogue references :

DM.439 p. 85

Obverse

Obverse legend : FRID: Z: SIGISM’ - PARCH’: BRAND’, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX ANNELETS SUPERPOSÉS).

Obverse description : Saint Jean-Baptiste debout de face, drapé, tenant de sa main gauche l'agneau pascal ; une tête de chien à droite entre ses pieds.

Obverse translation : (Frédéric et Sigismond...).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + MONETA° NOVA° AVR’° SWOBACH’.

Reverse description : Croix fleuronnée posée en sautoir, cantonnée de quatre écus.

Reverse translation : (Monnaie nouvelle d’or de Schwaben).

Historical background

GERMANY - BRANDENBURG FRANCONIA - FREDERICK OF ANSBACH AND SIGISMUND OF KULMBACH

(1486-1495)

After the extinction of the Ascanian dynasty founded by Albert de Ballenstedt, known as Albert the Bear, Brandenburg fell into the bosom of the house of Bavaria in 1323 then of Luxembourg in 1373. On April 30, 1415, the Emperor Sigismund granted the title of margrave of Brandenburg to the burgrave of Nuremberg, Frederick of Hohenzollern, in gratitude for services rendered. The latter obtained the title of elector in 1417. Brandenburg remained in the house of Hohenzollern until November 1918. The Reformation was introduced there in 1539. Frederick, margrave of Ansbach, was the brother of John Cicero and the son of Albert Achille who died in 1486.