fme_1168923 - ORANGE - PRINCIPALITY OF ORANGE - MAURICE OF NASSAU Plaquette, Maurice de Nassau, Chevalier de l’ordre de la Jarretière, refrappe
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Type : Plaquette, Maurice de Nassau, Chevalier de l’ordre de la Jarretière, refrappe
Date: (1616)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 56 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 32,72 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Flan légèrement voilé. Patine hétérogène avec une forte usure, rayures et coups, notamment sur la tranche. Percée à 12 heures, ayant crée une forte cassure
Obverse
Obverse legend : MAVRITIVS . AVR . PRINC . COM . NASS . ET . MV . MAR . VE . FL . EQ . OR . PERISCELIDIS . 1615.
Obverse description : Buste de trois-quarts vers la droite.
Obverse translation : Maurice, prince d'Orange, comte de Nassau et de Meurs, marquis de Vere et de Flessingue, chevalier de l'ordre de la Jarretière.
Reverse
Reverse legend : HONV. SOIT. (FLEUR) Q. V. I. (FLEUR) MAL . PENSE.
Reverse description : Écu armorié du prince Maurice dans l'ordre de la Jarretière, surmonté d'une couronne.
Commentary
Dimensions : 56,50x44 mm.
Dimensions: 56.50 x 44 mm
Dimensions: 56.50 x 44 mm
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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