Live auction - bfe_1115913 - LORRAINE - DUCHY OF BAR - RENÉ I OF ANJOU Gros d'argent de Saint-Mihiel
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Live starting : Type : Gros d'argent de Saint-Mihiel
Date: c. 1422-1431
Date: s.m.
Mint name / Town : Saint-Mihiel
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 1,87 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Gros d’argent frappé sur un flan large et légèrement irrégulier. Usures et faiblesses de frappe sur les deux faces. Petits chocs sur la tranche. Rayures dans les champs. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : RENAT' - D - B[AR M'X] P'X CO’, (PONCTUATION PAR SIMPLE SAUTOIR).
Obverse description : René Ier d'Anjou, debout de face, en armure, coiffé de trois roses à cinq pétales, tenant une épée annelée et pointée de la main droite et un écu écartelé aux 1 et 4 d’Anjou, aux 2 et 3 de Bar, sur le tout de Lorraine.
Obverse translation : (René, duc de Bar, marquis de Pont-à-Mousson).
Reverse
Reverse legend : MON-ETA - [S+ M]I-CHA ; LÉGENDE EXTÉRIEURE, + SIT NOM[E]N+ DOMINI+ BENEDICT’, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX SAUTOIRS SUPERPOSÉS).
Reverse description : Grande croix pattée coupant la légende intérieure.
Reverse translation : (Monnaie de Saint-Mihiel).
Historical background
LORRAINE - DUCHY OF BAR - RENÉ I OF ANJOU
(1419-1480)
René of Anjou (1409-1480), better known as "Good King René" was also Count of Provence (1434-1480), Duke of Bar (1419-1480). By his marriage to Isabelle de Lorraine, the daughter of Duke Charles, he became Duke of Lorraine. He was also king of Naples (1438-1442), titular king of Sicily and nominal of Jerusalem (1434-1480). In Lorraine, he met the opposition of Antoine de Vaudemont until 1437. On the death of Isabella in 1453, he entrusted the administration of the duchy to Jean de Calabria.
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