v08_1128 - LORRAINE - BISHOPRIC OF METZ - JEAN I D'APREMONT (61th bishop) Denier ou pfennig
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 30.49 €
Estimate : 45.73 €
Realised price : 38.11 €
Starting price : 30.49 €
Estimate : 45.73 €
Realised price : 38.11 €
Type : Denier ou pfennig
Date: c. 1224
Mint name / Town : Metz
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 0,79 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large. Faiblesse de frappe au niveau des légendes
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : [IOH]AN-[N]ES, (LÉGENDE RÉTROGRADE).
Obverse description : Buste de l'évêque à gauche, tenant une crosse de la main droite.
Obverse translation : (Jean).
Reverse
Reverse legend : [ME]TE[HSI]S, (LÉGENDE RÉTROGRADE).
Reverse description : Croix cantonnée aux 1 et 4 d’une étoile, aux 2 et 3 d’un croissant.
Reverse translation : (Metz).
Historical background
LORRAINE - BISHOPRIC OF METZ - JEAN I D'APREMONT (61th bishop)
(1224-6/12/1238)
The episcopate of Jean I of Apremont is inserted between that of Conrad de Scharfeneck (1212-1239) and that of Jacques de Lorraine (1239-1260). At that time, the bishops of Metz had to fight against the temporal power of the Count of Bar and the Duke of Lorraine. Not only was the war expensive while the bourgeois of Metz grew richer, but Jean d'Apremont was driven out by the Messins in 1232. Mathieu II of Lorraine (1220-1251) and Henri II Count of Bar (1214-1239) came to besiege Metz while the bishop withdrew to the Château Saint-Germain.
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