Live auction - bfe_456179 - PROVENCE - COUNTY OF PROVENCE - LOUIS I OF TARENTE AND JOANNA OF NAPLES Uthène, ochtène ou demi-gros

PROVENCE - COUNTY OF PROVENCE - LOUIS I OF TARENTE AND JOANNA OF NAPLES Uthène, ochtène ou demi-gros XF

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Estimate :	550 €
Price :	no bid
Maximum bid :	no bid
End of the sale :	31 October 2017 16:01:44

Type : Uthène, ochtène ou demi-gros

Date: (1355-1362)

Date: n.d.

Metal : billon

Diameter : 21,5 mm

Orientation dies : 2 h.

Weight : 1,27 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Ce demi-gros est frappé sur un flan légèrement irrégulier et large. La croix du revers apparaît légèrement en négatif au droit. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise de médaillier

Catalogue references :

Bd.851 (15 f.) - PA.4033 (91/5) - R.76 p. 225-226

Obverse

Obverse legend : +: L: ET: I: IHR: ET: SICIL’: REX:, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX ANNELETS SUPERPOSÉS).

Obverse description : Couronne sur un champ fleurdelisé sommé d’un lambel à 5 pendants.

Obverse translation : (Louis et Jeanne, rois de Jérusalem et de Sicile).

Reverse

Reverse legend : (LIS SOUS LAMBEL) COMES: ET: COMTSA: PVICIE, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX ANNELETS SUPERPOSÉS).

Reverse description : Croix cantonnée de quatre croisettes (croix de Jérusalem).

Reverse translation : (Comte et comtesse de Provence).

Historical background

PROVENCE - COUNTY OF PROVENCE - LOUIS I OF TARENTE AND JOANNA OF NAPLES

(1347-1362)

Joan of Naples (1326-1382) successively married André, Duke of Calabria, assassinated in 1345, then Louis de Tarente (+1362), Jacques III, King of Majorca (+1375), finally Othon, Duke of Brunswick. She was queen of Naples (1343-1382) and died assassinated, 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.