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fwo_533748 - KINGDOM OF CYPRUS - HUGH IV OF LUSIGNAN Gros au C n.d. Cerines ?

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Price : 180.00 €

Type : Gros au C

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Cerines ?

Metal : silver

Diameter : 26 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 4,60 g.

Coments on the condition:

Ce gros est frappé sur un flan large présentant un éclatement. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise sur lequel le roi est bien venu à la frappe

Catalogue references :

CCS.73 p. 285 - Metcalf733-735 p. 284 - Mor.26c p. 60

Obverse

Obverse legend : X HVGV[E] - REI DE.

Obverse description : Le roi couronné, vêtu d'un manteau, tenant un sceptre fleurdelisé de la main droite et un globe de la gauche ; le siège est orné de têtes de lions ; dans le champ à gauche, un C sous une croix.

Obverse translation : (Hugues, roi de).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + IERVSAL’M E DE CHIPRE.

Reverse description : Croix de Jérusalem cantonnée de quatre croisettes.

Reverse translation : (Jérusalem et de Chypre).

Commentary

Variété avec un C sous une croix.

Historical background

KINGDOM OF CYPRUS - HUGH IV OF LUSIGNAN

(1324-1359)

Cyprus, a Byzantine possession, was quasi-autonomous until the third crusade when Richard the Lionheart seized the island in 1191. The following year, he sold Cyprus to Guy de Lusignan, the last king of Jerusalem in title, who had been driven from the Holy Land after the defeat of Hattin in 1187 against Saladin and the siege of Acre the previous year. The island was to remain in the hands of the Crusaders until 1473. The kings were crowned in Nicosia for Cyprus and in Famagusta for Jerusalem. Hugues IV, the nephew of Henri II, is since 1318 the husband of Alix d'Ibelin. His very long reign was marked by the resumption of war with the Turks. He signs treaties of alliance with the Venetians, Rhodes and the Pope. Cyprus was affected by the Great Plague of 1348. Peter I succeeded him.

KINGDOM OF CYPRUS - HUGH IV OF LUSIGNAN Gros n.d. Nicosie VF

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