v37_0930 - HAINAUT - COUNTY OF HAINAUT - JOHN II OF AVESNES Petit gros

HAINAUT - COUNTY OF HAINAUT - JOHN II OF AVESNES Petit gros VF/XF

MONNAIES 37 (2009)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 175.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 200.00 €

Type : Petit gros

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Valenciennes

Metal : silver

Diameter : 22,5 mm

Orientation dies : 2 h.

Weight : 1,90 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Ce petit gros est frappé sur un flan assez large et légèrement irrégulier. Faiblesse de frappe sur le lion et sur l’un des meubles du revers. Monnaie au son mat

Catalogue references :

Bd.- - Lucas/Hainaut51 - NP.64/27 - Ch.30

Predigree :

Exemplaire provenant de la collection Laurent et provenant d’une vente Schulman de mars 1975, n° 1252

Obverse

Obverse legend : +: IOHANNES: COMES: HANOIE.

Obverse description : Lion debout.

Obverse translation : (Jean, comte de Hainaut).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + MONETA: VALENCENENSIS.

Reverse description : Croix cantonnée de quatre groupes de trois globules posés en triangle.

Reverse translation : (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..