v22_0749 - TOWN OF BESANCON - COINAGE STRUCK IN THE NAME OF CHARLES V Quart de teston ou pièce de deux gros

TOWN OF BESANCON - COINAGE STRUCK IN THE NAME OF CHARLES V Quart de teston ou pièce de deux gros XF/AU

MONNAIES 22 (2005)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
Realised price : 118.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 220.00 €

Type : Quart de teston ou pièce de deux gros

Date: 1623

Mint name / Town : Besançon

Quantity minted : 270909

Metal : billon

Millesimal fineness : 479 ‰

Diameter : 26 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 2,96 g.

Coments on the condition:

Ce quart de teston est frappé sur un flan irrégulier, un peu court et présentant un éclatement à 6 heures au droit. Petits défauts de laminage au revers et infimes rayures à droite de l’aigle

Catalogue references :

Bd.1289 (3 f.) - PA.5416 (123/17 var.) - CCK.M13/1623

Obverse

Obverse legend : + CAROLVS. V - (2) - IMPERATOR.

Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Charles Quint à gauche vu de trois quarts en avant ; 16-23 de part et d’autre du buste.

Obverse translation : (Charles V, empereur).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + MONETA. CIV. IMP. BISONT.

Reverse description : Armes de Besançon (aigle tenant deux colonnes).

Reverse translation : (Monnaie de la cité impériale de Besançon).

Historical background

TOWN OF BESANCON - COINAGE STRUCK IN THE NAME OF CHARLES V

(1555-1676)

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 6 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.