v42_0516 - PROVENCE - COUNTY OF PROVENCE - RAYMOND BÉRANGER V Menut marseillais

PROVENCE - COUNTY OF PROVENCE - RAYMOND BÉRANGER V Menut marseillais XF

MONNAIES 42 (2010)
Starting price : 650.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
Realised price : 650.00 €

Type : Menut marseillais

Date: c. 1243

Mint name / Town : Marseille

Metal : billon

Diameter : 16,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 0,82 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan large et légèrement irrégulier. Exemplaire recouvert d’une légère patine grise. La croix du revers apparaît légèrement en négatif

Catalogue references :

Bd.810 (15 f.) - PA.3935 (88/3) - R.18a p. 202

Obverse

Obverse legend : + R. BE. CO.NES., (S COUCHÉE).

Obverse description : Écu d’Aragon à deux pals.

Obverse translation : (Raymond Béranger, comte).

Reverse

Reverse legend : E P-VI-N-CI.

Reverse description : Croix coupant la légende, les bras terminés par trois points.

Reverse translation : (de Provence).

Commentary

Type monétaire rare manquant à bon nombre de collections.

Historical background

PROVENCE - COUNTY OF PROVENCE - RAYMOND BÉRANGER V

(1209-1245)

Raymond-Béranger V of Aragon (1198-1245) is the son of Alphonse II of Aragon, Count of Provence, and Gersende de Sabran. In 1209, he succeeded his father in the county of Provence and, in 1220, married Béatrice de Savoie (+1266) with whom he had four daughters: Marguerite (1221-1295), who married Louis IX; Éléonore (1222-1291), who married Henry III of England; Sancie, who was the second wife of Richard, King of the Romans; finally Béatrice (1234-1267) who inherited from her father in 1245 and brought Provence as a dowry to Charles de France (1226-1285), brother of Louis IX.