Live auction - bfe_501204 - PROVENCE - COUNTY OF PROVENCE - JOANNA OF NAPLES Florin d'or à la chambre

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VF/XF

Estimate :	1 200 €
Price :	750 €
Maximum bid :	750 €
End of the sale :	05 March 2019 16:47:49
bidders :	1 bidder

Type : Florin d'or à la chambre

Date: c. 1372

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 948 ‰

Diameter : 20,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 3,04 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Ce florin est frappé sur un flan légèrement voilé. Choc à 5 heures au droit

Catalogue references :

Bd.856 (30 f.) - PA.4014 (90/14) - R.87c

Predigree :

Exemplaire provenant des VSO MONNAIES 37, n° 859, de MONNAIES 54, n° 271 et de la collection R.P.

Obverse

Obverse legend : + IOHANA: DEI: GR: IHR: SICL: REG.

Obverse description : Champ parti de Jérusalem et d'Anjou.

Obverse translation : (Jeanne, par la grâce de Dieu, reine de Jérusalem et de Sicile).

Reverse

Reverse legend : .S. IOHA-NNES. B. (LIS SOUS UN LAMBEL).

Reverse description : Saint Jean-Baptiste debout de face, nimbé, vêtu d'une peau de mouton, bénissant de la main droite et un sceptre cruciforme de la main gauche.

Reverse translation : (Saint Jean-Baptiste).

Historical background

PROVENCE - COUNTY OF PROVENCE - JOANNA OF NAPLES

(1343-1362-1382)

Jeanne de Naples (1326-1382) succeeded her grandfather in 1343. She is Queen of Naples, Countess of Provence and Forcalquier, titular queen of Jerusalem and Sicily. She was first married with André, Duke of Calabria, assassinated in 1345, then with Louis de Tarente who died in 1362, then with Jacques III, King of Majorca who died in 1375, finally with Othon de Brunswick who died in 1399. She died assassinated in 1382, leaving the County of Provence to Louis I of Anjou, son of Jean II le Bon. In Naples, it was Charles III, great-grandson of Charles II, who succeeded him before being assassinated in 1386.