Token - Henri IV - Hoc Foedere Lilia Florent

Token - Henri IV - Hoc Foedere Lilia Florent - obverseToken - Henri IV - Hoc Foedere Lilia Florent - reverse

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Features

Location France
King Henry IV (Henri IV) (1589-1610)
Type Commemorative medals › Institution medal
Year 1600
Composition Brass
Weight 5.2 g
Diameter 27 mm
Thickness 1 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Number
N#
326641
References Feu# 1785
Félix-Bienaimé Feuardent; 1904. Jetons et méreaux depuis Louis IX jusqu'à la fin du Consulat de Bonaparte / Tome 1. Grandes administrations de l'état de la ville de Paris; corporations, etc.; noblesse et villes de l'Ile-de-France. Rollin et Feuardent, Paris, France.
And 3 more volumes.

Commemorative issue

The King's marriage to Marie de MédicisAutomatically translated

Obverse

Joined shields of France and Navarre surrounded by the collars of the King's orders and surmounted by a closed royal crown; between the points of the two shields, an H set on two branches and surmounted by a coronet.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering: · CAMERAE · COMP/VTOR · REGIORVM ·

Reverse

Two Lovers holding a knotted cord and each holding a lily. Legend around and in exergue. (Variant with date at bottom)Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
HOC · FOEDERE · LILIA · FLORENT
· SVBDVCENDIS · / · RATIONIBVS ·

Edge

Plain

Comments

Allusion to Henri IV's marriage to Marie de Médicis, celebrated in Lyon on December 17, 1600 (J. de Bie, La France métallique, 1636, p. 277).
Reverse legend: end of dactylic hexameter. For the clausule lilia florent, cf. Ovide, Art d'aimer, 2, 115. This clausule was later used under Louis XIII for tokens of the King's Council and the Chancellery.
TOKENS OF THE CENTRAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE ANCIEN RÉGIME. CATALOGUE. TOME II | Thierry Sarmant, François Ploton-NicolletAutomatically translated

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1600) 

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