Florin - John the Baptist 1st type

Florin - John the Baptist (1st type) - obverseFlorin - John the Baptist (1st type) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Luxembourg
Duke John II the Pitiless (1418-1425)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 1419-1424
Value Florin
Currency Duchy - Florin (1353-1713)
Composition Gold
Weight 3.39 g
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
104593
References L# 189-1,
Romain Probst; 1998. Prifix : catalogue illustré des monnaies luxembourgeoises (1026 - 1998). Banque du Timbre et Lux-Numis, Luxembourg.
Weiller# 180,
Raymond Weiller; 1977. Les Monnaies Luxembourgeoises. Institut supérieur d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
BV# 189,
Édouard Bernays, Jules Vannérus; 1910. Histoire monétaire du comté puis du duché de Luxembourg et de ses fiefs : abbaye d'Echternach, comté de Chiny, seigneuies de Moiry, de Schönecken et de Saint-Vith, comté de Salm en Ardenne, seigneurie d'Orchimont, terre franche de Cugnon. Académie royale de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium.
Delmonte G# 392
André Delmonte; 1964. Le Benelux d'or : Répertoire du monnayage d'or des territoires composant les anciennes Pays-Bas. Jacques Schulman N.V., Amsterdam.
And 1 more volumes.

Obverse

St. Peter standing in front, holding a book in his left hand and a large key on the right, at the knees a coat of arms of Bavaria. Surrounded by the legend between an indoor girdle lined with a net and an external girdle. The saint divides up and down the legend and the inner girdle, as well as the net.

Script: Latin (uncial)

Lettering: *IOh'• C'• P'• R'• D VX• BAVAR'

Lettering (regular font): *IOH'• C'• P'• R'• D VX• BAVAR'

Translation: Jean, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria

Reverse

In a quadrilobe with a double rib, the quarterly shield of Bavaria-Palatinate, surrounded by four shields. At the top the shield with the empirial eagle rounded so as to simulate the wheel of Mainz, to the right the shield of Palatinate, to the left of Bavaria and at the bottom of Luxembourg, surrounded by the legend between two pearled circles.

Script: Latin (uncial)

Lettering: *MOn' *nOV' *LVC' *BVR'

Lettering (regular font): *MON' *NOV' *LVC' *BVR'

Translation: New currency of Luxembourg

Mint

Luxembourg, Luxembourg (1026-1795)

Comments

Very rare gold Florin, struck at the monetary mint of Luxembourg.
The new gros of John of Bavaria was counted at a higher rate than the former gros of Elisabeth Görlitz, this gold florin was worth 22 nuwegroschen.

Weiller analyzed 3 copies with extreme weights of 3.33 g. and 3.47 g.
No varieties of legend listed for this type.

The board taken by Probst in the Prifix has an error in the reverse that he does not mention. The shield of Palatinate represents a lion on a burelated field. This error is due to the fact that Probst naively copied the plate of the Histoire monétaire du comté puis duché de Luxembourg et de ses fiefs (Monetary History of the County then Duchy of Luxembourg and its fiefs). Bernays and Vannerus had already pointed out this mistake in 1910.

© Photo of the coin used with the kind agreement of Hess Divo AG, coin sold in auction on October 22, 2014 for a price exceeding €17,000.

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Past sales

Pictures Sale Date Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold Florin - John the Baptist (1st type)
Hess Divo
Auction 327
Lot 394
Internet Archive
22 Oct 2014 USD 20 417.06
(CHF 18 500.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
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