v16_0881 - SPAIN - KINGDOM OF SPAIN - JOANNA AND CHARLES Écu d’or, escudo n.d. Séville

SPAIN - KINGDOM OF SPAIN - JOANNA AND CHARLES Écu d’or, escudo n.d. Séville XF

MONNAIES 16 (2002)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 275.00 €
Realised price : 430.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 638.00 €

Type : Écu d’or, escudo

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Séville

Metal : gold

Diameter : 23 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 3,30 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Cet écu est frappé sur un flan assez régulier. On doit noter de petits tréflages au niveau des légendes. Les reliefs sont assez nets au niveau de l’écu. Les champs du revers présentent de petites rayures

Catalogue references :

CCT.56 p. 102

Predigree :

Monnaie provenant du trésor d’Hannogne-Saint-Remy (Ardennes)

Obverse

Obverse legend : IOANNA° ET° KAROLVS.

Obverse description : Écu couronné, à multiples quartiers ; à gauche une S, à droite une étoile à 8 rais.

Obverse translation : (Jeanne et Charles).

Reverse

Reverse legend : .REGES. SICIL[IE] ET HISPANIARVM.

Reverse description : Croix potencée dans un quadrilobe annelé et tréflé aux angles.

Reverse translation : (rois de Sicile et d’Espagne).

Historical background

SPAIN - KINGDOM OF SPAIN - JOANNA AND CHARLES

(1516-1555)

Charles V said Charles Quint was born in Ghent on February 25, 1500 from the union of the Archduke Philippe le Beau and Jeanne la Folle. On the paternal side he was the grandson of Maximilian I of Habsburg and on the maternal side, grandson of the Catholic kings, Ferdinand and Isabella. He became ruler of the Netherlands when his father died in 1506, when he was only six years old. A period of regency was exercised by his aunt Margaret of Austria until his emancipation before the States General on January 5, 1515. On January 23, 1516, his maternal grandfather died and he acceded to the throne of Spain under the name of Charles I. After the death of Maximilian I, Charles was elected German Emperor on June 28, 1519, under the name of Charles V. This election was at the origin of a long conflict which opposed him to the King of France François I. Charles Quint abdicated on October 25, 1555 from his possessions in the Netherlands and then on January 16, 1556 from his Spanish possessions. He died on September 21, 1558 in the monastery of San Jeromino de Yuste.