v33_1499 - KINGDOM OF PORTUGAL - SANCHO I Marabotin n.d.

KINGDOM OF PORTUGAL - SANCHO I Marabotin n.d. AU

MONNAIES 33 (2007)
Starting price : 9 500.00 €
Estimate : 16 000.00 €
Realised price : 12 700.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 47 000.00 €

Type : Marabotin

Date: n.d.

Metal : gold

Diameter : 28,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 3,59 g.

Rarity : R3

Catalogue references :

Gom.04.08 p. 69

Obverse

Obverse legend : SANCIVS REX PORTVGALIS.

Obverse description : Le roi à droite sur un cheval, couronné, tenant une épée de la main droite et une croix de la main gauche.

Obverse translation : (Sanche, roi du Portugal).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + IN NE PTRIS L FILII SPS SCI A.

Reverse description : Cinq écus du Portugal formant une croix, cantonnée de quatre étoiles à sept rais.

Reverse translation : (Au nom du Père, du Fils et du saint Esprit, je crois en Dieu).

Historical background

KINGDOM OF PORTUGAL - SANCHO I

(1185-03/27/1211)

Sancho I was born in 1153 or 1154 in Coimbra from the union of Alphonse I and Mathilde of Savoy. He married Douce d'Aragon. In 1185, on the death of his father, he became king of Portugal, with Coimbra as its capital. In 1191 he succeeded in conquering Silves, a southern city of great economic and administrative importance, but the Moors succeeded in recapturing the city. He died on March 27, 1211 and was buried in the Monastery of Santa Cruz de Coimbra.