bfe_609802 - LANDGRAVIATE OF UPPER ALSACE - ARCHDUKE FERDINAND OF AUSTRIA 3 kreutzer
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Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : 3 kreutzer
Date: (1584-1595)
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Ensisheim
Metal : billon
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,49 g.
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire frappé sur un flan plutôt large et régulier présentant quelques stries au revers. Très belle patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FERDINA D G AR AVST.
Obverse description : Buste de Ferdinand d'Autriche à droite couronné et cuirassé ; la couronne coupe la légende en haut ; dessous, le chiffre 3.
Obverse translation : (Ferdinand, par la grâce de Dieu, archiduc d'Autriche).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + LANDG : ALST : CO : PHIR : .
Reverse description : Écus d’Autriche, de Ferrette et d’Alsace posés en trèfle.
Reverse translation : (Landgrave d'Alsace, comte de Ferrette).
Historical background
LANDGRAVIATE OF UPPER ALSACE - ARCHDUKE FERDINAND OF AUSTRIA
(07/25/1564-1595)
Archduke Ferdinand was born in 1529. He is the second son of Emperor Ferdinand I and Anne, heiress of Bohemia and Hungary, who died in 1547; he is also the grandson of Philippe le Beau. He succeeded his father, who died in Vienna on July 25, 1564, in the Tyrol and in the "Vorlande" while his brother, Maximilian II, was crowned emperor and king of Bohemia and Hungary. Archduke Ferdinand died in 1595.
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