Live auction - bfe_1086357 - DUCHY OF LORRAINE - CHARLES IV Charles d’or
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Live starting : Type : Charles d’or
Date: 1668
Mint name / Town : Nancy
Metal : silver
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,78 g.
Edge : Lisse
Coments on the condition:
Léopold d’or frappé sur un flan présentant une irrégularité à 10 heures. Trace d’essai sur la tranche à 11 heures au droit. De petites stries d’ajustage à 8 heures
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CAR. IIII. D. G DVX - LOTHA. ET. BAR..
Obverse description : Tête laurée à droite du duc Charles IV.
Obverse translation : (Charles, par la grâce de Dieu, duc de Lorraine et de Bar).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SIT - NOM - DOM - BEN.
Reverse description : Croix formée de quatre groupes de deux C entrelacés sous une couronne ducal ; un cartouche en cœur contenant une croix à double traverse.
Reverse translation : (Soit béni le nom du Seigneur).
Commentary
Le charles d’or figure parmi les monnaies les plus rares des séries seigneuriale. Le bail de la Monnaie de Nancy a été passé à Paris en 1662. Il a été retrouvé et publié pour la première fois par Arnaud Clairand, « Le monnayage de Charles IV de Lorraine et le bail monétaire de 1662 », Cahiers numismatiques, n° 137, septembre 1998, p. 21-31.
The gold Charles is among the rarest coins in the seigneurial series. The lease for the Nancy Mint was issued in Paris in 1662. It was rediscovered and published for the first time by Arnaud Clairand, \\\"Le monnayage de Charles IV de Lorraine et le bail monétaire de 1662\\\", Cahiers numismatiques, no. 137, September 1998, pp. 21-31.
The gold Charles is among the rarest coins in the seigneurial series. The lease for the Nancy Mint was issued in Paris in 1662. It was rediscovered and published for the first time by Arnaud Clairand, \\\"Le monnayage de Charles IV de Lorraine et le bail monétaire de 1662\\\", Cahiers numismatiques, no. 137, September 1998, pp. 21-31.
Historical background
DUCHY OF LORRAINE - CHARLES IV
(1625-1675)
Charles de Vaudémont was the cousin and fiancé of Nicole de Lorraine, daughter of Henry I of Lorraine who died in 1624 without a male heir. In 1624, Nicole inherited the Duchy of Lorraine according to her father's will. In 1625, it was dispossessed of it in favor of Charles IV, whose personal reign began in 1625. Charles IV entered the league formed against France, gave asylum in 1630 to Gaston d'Orléans, the brother of the King of France, who was in disgrace and, on January 13, 1630, even secretly married his sister Marguerite to Gaston d'Orléans. His positions against the troops of the King of Sweden, Gustave II Adolphe, an ally of France in the conflict of the Thirty Years' War, gave Louis XIII the opportunity to conquer the Duchy of Lorraine. The conquest was short and Charles IV abdicated in Mirecourt on January 19, 1634 in favor of his brother Nicolas François. He retired to Besançon and never stopped fighting the French troops; he recovered his duchy in 1661, after their departure.
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