Live auction - fwo_437504 - ITALY - DUCHY OF MILAN - GIAN GALEAZZO VISCONTI Grosso n.d. Milan

ITALY - DUCHY OF MILAN - GIAN GALEAZZO VISCONTI Grosso n.d. Milan XF

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Estimate :	150 €
Price :	121 €
Maximum bid :	121 €
End of the sale :	01 August 2017 18:45:43
bidders :	4 bidders

Type : Grosso

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Milan

Metal : silver

Diameter : 23,5 mm

Orientation dies : 11 h.

Weight : 2,24 g.

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier, bien centré de part et d’autre

Catalogue references :

CNI/V. - Neg./Var.

Obverse

Obverse legend : COMES. VIRTVTVM. D. MEDIOLANI. V3C'..

Obverse description : Croix échancrée .

Reverse

Reverse legend : S ABROSIV' - .MEDIOLAN.

Reverse description : Saint Ambroise assis de face, tenant le fouet de sa main droite et la crosse de la main gauche, coupant la légende en bas, accosté de deux annelets.

Historical background

ITALY - DUCHY OF MILAN - GIAN GALEAZZO VISCONTI

(1385-1402)

Jean Galéas Visconti was born in 1353. He is the son of Galéas II and Blanche de Savoie. In 1360, he married Isabelle de France, daughter of Jean II dit le Bon (1350-1364) who brought him as a dowry the county of Vertus in Champagne. In 1380 he married Catherine, daughter of Barnabo Visconti. He seized the duchy after imprisoning and poisoning his uncle. A true conqueror, he took Verona and Vicenza in 1387, Padua, Feltre and Bellune in 1388, Pisa and Lunigiana in 1397, Siena in 1399, Perugia, Assisi, Spoleto and Nocera in 1400. Count of Vertus and lord of Milan, he bought in 1395 to the Emperor Wenceslas the title of Duke of Milan; as early as 1386 he had requested the title of King of Italy from Urban V; he died in 1402 in Melegnano.