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bfe_466173 - ORANGE - PRINCIPALITY OF ORANGE - MAURICE OF NASSAU Demi-franc

ORANGE - PRINCIPALITY OF ORANGE - MAURICE OF NASSAU Demi-franc XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 350.00 €
Type : Demi-franc
Date: 1621
Mint name / Town : Orange
Metal : silver
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 6,34 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie nettoyée frappée sur un flan irrégulier. Frappe légèrement décentrée. Usure sur les points hauts avec de petites faiblesses de frappe dans les légendes
Catalogue references :

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 : (Maurice I, par la grâce de Dieu, prince d'Orange, comte de Nassau).

Reverse


Reverse legend : (CORNET) SOLI. DEO. HONOR. ET. GLORI. 1621.
Reverse description : Croix fleuronnée et fleurdelisée.
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..

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