bfe_491878 - ROUSSILLON - PIERRE III Florin d'or au Saint-Jean Baptiste

ROUSSILLON - PIERRE III Florin d or au Saint-Jean Baptiste XF

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Price : 850.00 €

Type : Florin d'or au Saint-Jean Baptiste

Date: c.1346-1380

Mint name / Town : Perpignan

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 917 ‰

Diameter : 19,5 mm

Orientation dies : 1 h.

Weight : 3,45 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Monnaie frappée sur un flan irrégulier légèrement voilé. Usure sur les points hauts des motifs

Catalogue references :

Bd.677 (15 f.) - H.5 - DM.1871 - CC/21733 p. 335

Obverse

Obverse legend : + ARAG - O REX. P.

Obverse description : Grande fleur de lis épanouie.

Obverse translation : (Pierre, roi d’Aragon).

Reverse

Reverse legend : S. IOHA - NNES. B (TOUR).

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

Reverse translation : (Saint Jean-Baptiste).

Historical background

ROUSSILLON - PIERRE III

(1336-1387)

Pierre d'Aragon (1319-1387) is the son of Alfonso IV of Aragon (1327-1336). He succeeded his father in 1336 on the throne of Aragon under the name of Peter IV (III of Barcelona). From the beginning of his reign, he had to fight Jacques III of Majorca (1324-1343) in the county of Roussillon, which Pierre seized in 1343. He was married four times. In first weddings, he married Marie de Navarre (+1347), the daughter of Philippe d'Évreux, then Éléonore of Portugal (+1348), then Éléonore of Sicily (+1374), finally Sibylle de Tortia. His son Jean I of Aragon (1350-1395) succeeded him in 1387.