Liege 1489 2 heaume
This specimen was lot 700 in Jean Elsen sale 138 (Brussels, September 2018), where it sold for €260 (about US$361 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"LIEGE, Principauté, Jean de Hornes (1485-1505), AR double heaume, 1489. D/ Ecu de Hornes heaumé. COIT L' en fin de légende. R/ SI DVS- NOB' QS- COT' N'-OS 1489 Croix longue et pattée, portant un cor en coeur, cantonnée de deux lis et de deux lions. Rare Taches au droit. presque Très Beau. (prince-bishopric of Liege, John of Hoorn, 1485-1505, silver double helmet of 1489. Obverse: helmeted arms of Hoorn, COIT at the end of the legend; reverse: long cross pattée, with a horseshoe at the center, cantoned with two fleurs-de-lys and two lions. Rare, obverse stains, about very fine.)"
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: debased silver, this specimen 3,00 g.
Catalog reference: Chestret 415; Dengis 795; Levinson II-122b.
- Roberts, James N., The Silver Coins of Medieval France (476-1610 AD), S. Salem, NY: Attic Books, 1996.
- [1]Elsen, Philippe, et al., Vente Publique 138, Collection A. BLONDEL, Collection M. HENDRICKX, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils, S.A., 2018.
Link to:
- (1485) double heaume, Jean de Hornes
- (1485-1505) double patard
- (1485-1505) florin d'or postulat, Jean de Hornes
- 1486 tiers de patard
- 1486 patard
- (14)86 double patard
- 1486 double heaume
- 1488 demi-aidant, Everard de la Marck
- (1488-89) florin d'or postulat, Everard de la Marck
- 1489 double patard
- Brabant 1489 double patard, Antwerp mint
- 1494 brûlé
- 1494 patard
- (1494) double patard
- Coins and currency dated 1489
- return to coins of Liège