bfe_321336 - HAINAUT - COUNTY OF HAINAUT - JOHN II OF AVESNES Esterlin

HAINAUT - COUNTY OF HAINAUT - JOHN II OF AVESNES Esterlin VF

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Type : Esterlin

Date: (1293-1297)

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Maubeuge

Metal : silver

Diameter : 18 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 1,11 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Cet esterlin est frappé sur un flan assez large, voilé et irrégulier. La croix du revers apparaît en négatif au droit. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise

Catalogue references :

Bd.2099 (4 f.) - Lucas/Hainaut63 p. 43 - NP.64/39 - May.39

Obverse

Obverse legend : +X IX COMESX HAYONIE.

Obverse description : Buste de face de Jean d’Avesnes portant une couronne de roses.

Obverse translation : (Jean, comte de Hainaut).

Reverse

Reverse legend : MEL.-BOD-IEN-SIS.

Reverse description : Croix coupant la légende, cantonnée de quatre groupes de trois besants posés en triangle.

Reverse translation : (Maubeuge).

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..

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