Live auction - bfe_398758 - ORANGE - PRINCIPALITY OF ORANGE - MAURICE OF NASSAU Demi-franc

ORANGE - PRINCIPALITY OF ORANGE - MAURICE OF NASSAU Demi-franc AU

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Estimate :	1 000 €
Price :	no bid
Maximum bid :	no bid
End of the sale :	27 September 2016 17:03:12

Type : Demi-franc

Date: 1620

Mint name / Town : Orange

Metal : silver

Diameter : 30 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 6,61 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Ce demi-franc est frappé sur un flan large et relativement régulier. Exemplaire présentant d’assez haut reliefs, frappé avec un coin de droit présentant une petite cassure. Une jolie patine grise de médaillier le recouvre. De légers tréflages

Catalogue references :

Bd.1001 (20 f.) - PA.4593 (100/4) - VW.34

Predigree :

Exemplaire provenant de la vente sur offres Burgan de novembre 1987, n° 698 et de la collection Yves Caille

Obverse

Obverse legend : .MAVRITIVS. I. D. G. PRIN. AVR. CO. NA. / F SUR CROISSANT, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 7 HEURES).

Obverse description : Buste de Maurice de Nassau à droite, cuirassé, drapé, avec une fraise, contenu dans un cercle lisse.

Obverse translation : (Philippe-Guillaume I, par la grâce de Dieu, prince d'Orange, comte de Nassau).

Reverse

Reverse legend : (CORNET) SOLI. DEO. HONOR. ET. GLORI. 1620.

Reverse description : Croix fleuronnée portant une rose en cœur.

Reverse translation : (À Dieu seul l'honneur et la gloire).

Historical background

ORANGE - PRINCIPALITY OF ORANGE - MAURICE OF NASSAU

(1618-1625)

Son of Guillaume de Nassau, Maurice de Nassau was born in Dillenburg in 1567. On the death of his father, aged only seventeen, he was appointed stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland, then, in 1587, captain general of the armies of land and sea of the United Provinces. It was with the support of King Henry IV of France that he took the places of Breda (1591), Nijmegen (1592) and all those on the right bank of the Rhine from the Spaniards. Maurice de Nassau built the citadel of Orange. He died in The Hague in 1625 and was succeeded by his brother, Frédéric-Henri..