Live auction - bfe_1167934 - LORRAINE - CITY OF METZ Franc messin de 12 gros
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Live starting : Type : Franc messin de 12 gros
Date: 1622
Mint name / Town : Metz
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 715 ‰
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 7,23 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Franc frappé sur un flan large et légèrement irrégulier. Présence de petits chocs sur la tranche. Usures et faiblesses de frappe sur les deux faces. Traces de tréflage sur la légende du revers. Monnaie ayant été précédemment nettoyé et présentant des rayures dans les champs. Hauts reliefs nets
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : S. STEPHANVS PROTHOM.
Obverse description : Petit buste de saint Étienne à gauche, la tête nimbée, à l'exergue : .1622..
Obverse translation : (Saint Étienne, protomartyr).
Reverse
Reverse legend : MONETA NOVA METENSIS, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 5 HEURES).
Reverse description : Écu de Metz dans une épicycloïde, à l'exergue .XII. G..
Reverse translation : (Monnaie nouvelle de Metz ; 12 gros).
Historical background
LORRAINE - CITY OF METZ
1563-1619
Saint Stephen is always represented with one or more stones because he was stoned, becoming the first martyr after Christ. The political situation changed in Metz in the 16th century; freed from the tutelage of the bishop, the city is now administered by the citizens. Henri II seized the Three Bishoprics in 1552, which were confirmed to him by the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis in 1559, but Metz would not be definitively integrated into the kingdom until after the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678. Municipal coinage ceased in 1661.
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