Namur 1713 escalin
This specimen was lot 1132 in Jean Elsen sale 144 (Brussels, March 2020), where it sold for €160 (about US$211 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"NAMUR, Comté, Maximilien Emmanuel de Bavière (1711-1714), AR escalin, 1713. Au titre de vicaire. D/ Lion deb. à g., ten. une épée et l'écu ovale de Bavière. R/ Grand écu ovale couronné, accosté de la date. Rare. presque Très Beau. (county of Namur, Maximilien Emmanuel of Bavaria, 1711-14, silver escalin of 1713, struck in the name of the vicar. Obverse: lion rampant left, bearing a sword and the oval arms of Bavaria; reverse: large crowned oval arms divide the date. Rare, about Very Fine.)"
This type was accompanied by a liard (KM 20, 26), half escalin (KM 27), half ecu (KM 30, 31), ecu (KM 32, 33, 34) and souverain d'or (KM 25) for 1713. The Spanish Low Countries were one of the main battlegrounds of the War of Spanish Succession which broke out after the death of Charles II of Spain. Philip V, the French candidate, was persuaded by Louis XIV to surrender his claim to Belgium to Maximilian Emanuel in 1711. Maximilian had been evicted from his electorate by the Austrians and was effectively homeless. By the Treaty of Utrecht in 1714, Maximilian surrendered Belgium to the Austrians and returned to Bavaria.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver or billon, this specimen 5,35 g.
Catalog reference: KM 28 (probably) or 29, Chalon, Namur, 266; V.H. 785.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- van Gelder, H. Enno, and Marcel Hoc, Les Monnaies des pays-Bas Bourguignons et Espagnols, 1434-1713, Amsterdam, J. Schulman, 1960, with supplement of 1964.
- [1]Elsen, Philippe, et al., Vente Publique 144, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils S.A., 2020.
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