Live auction - bfe_479655 - LORRAINE - DUCHY OF LORRAINE - FRANCIS I Teston

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AU/XF

Estimate :	2 000 €
Price :	1 050 €
Maximum bid :	3 002 €
End of the sale :	05 June 2018 16:53:05
bidders :	2 bidders

Type : Teston

Date: 1544

Mint name / Town : Nancy

Metal : silver

Diameter : 29 mm

Orientation dies : 7 h.

Weight : 9,07 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Ce teston est frappé sur un flan large et irrégulier. Le portrait du roi est bien venu à la frappe. Le revers présente de petites faiblesses de frappe. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise

Catalogue references :

Bd.1519 (4 f.) - S.4 pl. XVII, p. 125 - Flon.n° 1 p. 601

Obverse

Obverse legend : + FRANCISCVS+ D+ G+ LOTHOR+ B+ Z+ GLD+ D.

Obverse description : Buste du duc, à gauche, barbu, couronné et cuirassé.

Obverse translation : (François, par la grâce de Dieu, [duc de] Lorraine...).

Reverse

Reverse legend : MONETA. NANCEII. CVSA.

Reverse description : Écu de Lorraine à six quartiers timbré d’une couronne ducale ; au-dessous, sous un trait d’exergue 1544.

Reverse translation : (Monnaie frappé à Nancy).

Commentary

Les testons de François Ier sont très rares et ne sont connus que pour les millésimes 1544 et 1545, celui de 1544 étant beaucoup plus rare que celui de 1545.

Historical background

LORRAINE - DUCHY OF LORRAINE - FRANCIS I

(1544-1545)

François Ier was born in Nancy on February 15, 1517 from the union of Antoine de Lorraine and Renée de Bourbon. In 1526 he was engaged to Anne of Cleves, daughter of John II of Cleves, Count of La Marck, but the marriage never took place and Anne married King Henry VIII of England, who divorced her that same year. of their marriages. François married Christine of Denmark, daughter of Christian II and Elisabeth of Austria, sister of Charles V. He received the ducal crown on June 14, 1544 after the death of his father Antoine. He reigned over the duchy for a short time. Already ill at the time of his accession, he died on June 12, 1545 in Remiremont where he had retired to follow a cure..