Lot n° 434
Estimation :
1000 - 1200
EUR
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Result
: 1 700EUR
JEAN II le Bon 1350-1364 - Lot 434
JEAN II le Bon 1350-1364
(lily) IOhAnnЄS: DЄI: GRACIA: FRAnCORV': RЄX. King wearing crowned helmet and armed on galloping horse brandishing sword.
R/. ✠ XP'C * VIИCIT * XP'C * RЄGNAT * XP'C * IMPЄRAT. Leafy cross with heart quatrefoil within leafy quatrefoil cantoned by four shamrocks.
♦ Fr 279; Dy 294
Franc à cheval gold December 5, 1360. (3.73 g)
Slightly deformed flan. Very fine.
A large number of "Franc à cheval" were struck to pay the ransom of the king taken prisoner by the English at the Battle of Poitiers on September 19, 1356. At the time, the word "franc" meant "debt-free".
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