v35_0455 - COUNTY OF LUXEMBOURG - ERMESINDE Denier

COUNTY OF LUXEMBOURG - ERMESINDE Denier VF

MONNAIES 35 (2008)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 150.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 385.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Luxembourg

Metal : silver

Diameter : 15 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 0,74 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan large et présente un léger décentrage au droit comme au revers. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise et présentant quelques faiblesses de frappe

Catalogue references :

Bd.- - B.V.3 p. 29 - Pr.L3-1

Obverse

Obverse legend : LVSEN-BOR.

Obverse description : Comtesse debout, de profil à gauche, tenant un lis.

Obverse translation : (Luxembourg).

Reverse

Reverse legend : [H]A-N-RI.

Reverse description : Écu luxembourgeois.

Reverse translation : (Henri).

Historical background

COUNTY OF LUXEMBOURG - ERMESINDE

(1196-02/17/1247)

Ermesinde, daughter of Count Henri IV of Luxembourg (1136-1196) was promised by her father, in 1192, to Count Thibaut de Bar. Thibaut bought Luxembourg from Otton of Burgundy and succeeded in conquering the domain of Poilvache and Namurois. He died on February 12, 1214 and Ermesinde remarried to Waleran, son of the Duke of Limbourg. The latter died in June 1226. From 1236, Ermesinde associated his son Henry I with the administration of the county. She died on February 17, 1247.