v24_1865 - HUNGARY - LOUIS I Florin d'or c. 1342-1382

HUNGARY - LOUIS I Florin d or c. 1342-1382 AU

MONNAIES 24 (2005)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 950.00 €
unsold lot

Type : Florin d'or

Date: c. 1342-1382

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 986 ‰

Diameter : 21 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 3,54 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Très bel exemplaire pour ce type. Un petit coup sur la tranche à 11 heures

Catalogue references :

DM.1208 - F.2

Obverse

Obverse legend : °+ LODOV.-ICI REX.

Obverse description : Grande fleur de lis épanouie.

Obverse translation : (Louis roi).

Reverse

Reverse legend : .S. IONA-NNES (COURONNE).

Reverse description : Saint Jean-Baptiste debout de face, nimbé, barbu, vêtu de la peau de mouton, tendant la main droite et tenant un sceptre cruciforme bouleté.

Reverse translation : (Saint Jean-Baptiste).

Historical background

HUNGARY - LOUIS I

(1342-1382)

On the death of Charles-Robert, who died in Visegrad on July 16, 1342, his son Louis I succeeded him. Through his mother Elisabeth, he is the grandson of Valdislav I. Born in 1326, king of Hungary in 1342, he was also king of Poland from 1370. He first married in 1338, Marguerite (1335-1349), daughter of Charles IV of Luxembourg, then in 1353, Elisabeth Kontromanitch, daughter of Stephen Ban of Bosnia. He had only two daughters, Marie (1370-1395) who succeeded her father on the throne of Hungary in 1382 after having married Sigismond (1368-1437) in 1385, king of Hungary in 1387, king of Bohemia in 1419 and Emperor of the Holy German Empire in 1433. Hedwige (1371-1399), the second daughter of Louis I of Hungary, married in 1386 Vladislas II (1351-1434), Grand Duke of Lithunaie and King of Poland in 1386.