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HAINAUT - COUNTY OF HAINAUT - JOHN II OF AVESNES Demi-gros au cavalier ou baudequin XF

MONNAIES 22 (2005)
Starting price : 130.00 €
Estimate : 220.00 €
Realised price : 191.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 203.00 €

Type : Demi-gros au cavalier ou baudequin

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Valenciennes

Metal : silver

Diameter : 23,5 mm

Orientation dies : 5 h.

Weight : 2,16 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Ce baudequin est frappé sur un flan régulier et assez large

Catalogue references :

Bd.2094 (12 f.) - Lucas/Hainaut47 p. 36 - NP.64/111 - Ch.27

Obverse

Obverse legend : + IOHANN-ES COMES - HAIN.

Obverse description : Cavalier en armure sur un cheval galopant à gauche, coiffé d’un heaume, tenant les rennes et un bouclier de sa main gauche et un étendard de sa main droite.

Obverse translation : (Jean, comte de Hainaut).

Reverse

Reverse legend : +* SIGNVM CRVCIS ; LÉGENDE EXTÉRIEURE : + MONETA VALENCENSIS.

Reverse description : Croix.

Reverse translation : (Signe de la croix ; monnaie de Valenciennes).

Historical background

HAINAUT - COUNTY OF HAINAUT - JOHN II OF AVESNES

(1280-1304)

Son of Count Jean I of Hainaut (1246-1257) and Adelaide, daughter of Count Florent IV of Holland, he was Count of Hainaut from 1257 to his death in 1304. He only struck coins from 1280, the year of the death of his grandmother Margaret of Constantinople. He was Count of Holland from 1300 to 1304 and married Philippine, daughter of Count Henry II of Luxembourg, with whom he had nine children..