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Live auction - bfe_539892 - PROVENCE - COUNTY OF PROVENCE - LOUIS OF PROVENCE Écu d’or, 2e type

PROVENCE - COUNTY OF PROVENCE - LOUIS OF PROVENCE Écu d’or, 2e type XF
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Estimate : 1 800 €
Price : 2 160 €
Maximum bid : 2 500 €
End of the sale : 10 September 2019 17:28:51
bidders : 4 bidders
Type : Écu d’or, 2e type
Date: c. 1384-1388
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Avignon (?)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 28,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 3,88 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Cet écu d’or est frappé sur un flan irrégulier et légèrement voilé. D’infimes hairlines dans les champs et quelques faiblesses de frappe
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la vente sur offres Burgan du 10 juin 1994, n° 61 et de la collection Yves Caille

Obverse


Obverse legend : + LVDOVICVSX DEIX GRAX IRLMX ZX SICILX REX, (PONCTUATION PAR DEUX SAUTOIRS SUPERPOSÉS).
Obverse description : Écu couronné semé de lis au lambel brochant en chef.
Obverse translation : (Louis, par la grâce de Dieu, roi de Jérusalem et de Sicile).

Reverse


Reverse legend : + XPS (ROSE) REX (ROSE) VEIT (ROSE) IN (ROSE) PACE (ROSE) DEUS (ROSE) HO (ROSE) FAC (ROSE) EST.
Reverse description : Croix fleurdelisée et feuillue avec une rose à cinq pétales dans un losange curviligne en cœur, le tout dans un quadrilobe cantonné de quatre couronnes.
Reverse translation : (Le Christ est venu en paix et Dieu s’est fait homme).

Historical background


PROVENCE - COUNTY OF PROVENCE - LOUIS OF PROVENCE

(1384-1417)

Louis II (1377-1417) is the son of Louis I of Anjou (1339-1384). He is Count of Provence and Forcalquier, King of Naples, Jerusalem and Sicily in title and Count of Anjou. His father died fighting to try to recover the kingdom of Naples and, while Louis II will also try to reconquer it, his mother, Marie de Blois (+1404), governs Provence. Louis II marries Yolande d'Aragon (1380-1443) but dies in Angers at forty.

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