v52_0885 - COUNTY OF LA MARCHE - HUGH XI Obole

MONNAIES 52 (2012)
Starting price : 950.00 €
Estimate : 2 000.00 €
Realised price : 981.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 1 850.00 €

Type : Obole

Date: c. 1250

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Lusignan ?

Metal : silver

Diameter : 14,5 mm

Orientation dies : 4 h.

Weight : 0,50 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Cette obole est frappée sur un flan large et irrégulier présentant de petits éclatements. La croix du revers apparaît légèrement en négatif au droit. Exemplaire recouvert d’une légère patine grise

Catalogue references :

Bd.411 (40 f.) - PA.2607 (56/2)

Obverse

Obverse legend : + VGO COIIES MAR.

Obverse description : CHE entre deux croissants.

Obverse translation : (Hugues, comte de La Marche).

Reverse

Reverse legend : :+: DNS. LEZINIACI.

Reverse description : Croix.

Reverse translation : (Seigneur de Lusignan).

Commentary

Le Z est traité sous la forme de deux fuseaux se retrouvant sur les armes de Chauvigny.

Historical background

COUNTY OF LA MARCHE - HUGH XI

(1249-1260)

The history of Marche County is complex. The county of Basse Marche had been under English domination since 1177. In 1203, at the request of Philippe Auguste, Eleanor of Aquitaine restored the county to Hugues IX (1199-1204-1208). His son Hugues X de Lusignan succeeded him in 1208. He married in 1220, the widow of King Jean-sans-Terre (+1216), Isabelle d'Angoulême. He thus became Count of Angoulême. His son, Hugues XI le Brun, inherited the county of Angoulême on his mother's death in 1246 and the county of La Marche in 1249. He was thus the half-brother of King Henry III Plantagenêt..