Live auction - fwo_1034610 - MONACO - PRINCIPALITY OF MONACO - HONORE III Pezzetta 1734 Monaco
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| Estimate : | 220 € |
| Price : | 260 € |
| Maximum bid : | 270 € |
| End of the sale : | 22 July 2025 20:23:34 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Pezzetta
Date: 1734
Mint name / Town : Monaco
Metal : billon
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 4,07 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie agréable. De petites aspérités sur la surface derrière le buste
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : HONORATVS. III. D. G. PR. MONOECI.
Obverse description : Buste drapé et cuirassé de Honoré III à droite vu de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse translation : (Honoré III par la grâce de Dieu prince de Monaco).
Reverse
Reverse legend : .AVXILLIVM MEVM A DOMINO. 1734.
Reverse description : Croix formée de quatre H couronnées , cantonnée de quatre fuseaux ; rosette au centre dans un cartouche.
Reverse translation : (Mon secours vient du Seigneur).
Historical background
MONACO - PRINCIPALITY OF MONACO - HONORE III
(1720-1795)
Honoré III (1720-1795) is the eldest son of Jacques I de Guyon-Matignon (1689-1751) and Louise Hyppolite (1697-1731), the niece of Antoine, Prince of Monaco (1661-1731). In three years, the principality which had known only three princes in one hundred and thirty years saw three in succession. The long reign of Honoré III allowed a necessary restoration thanks to the administration of the knight Grimaldi, adulterine son of Antoine Ier who "reigned" during more than fifty years. Unfortunately, at the end of his reign, the principality was annexed by the Revolutionary Convention on February 14, 1793. Honoré was imprisoned, saved by the end of the Terror but he died in 1795. Honoré III had married a wealthy Genoese heiress in 1751, Marie-Catherine de Brignole-Sale, daughter of a doge of Genoa whom he divorced in 1770 and it was his son Honoré IV (1758-1819) who succeeded him, but in 1814.
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