Pegasus

[bagerap]

This brass jeton appears to show Pegasus. AB EQUIS VICTORIA.

Should be easy, but I can't place it.

28 mm.

 

 

[constanius]

The crest of Mantes was thus party : the first half Azure flower golden lilies , the second half of gold oak natural, ripped sand . Two Latin couplets accompanied.

As currency , the ecu, they recalled the double origin . We find all two reproduced on a series of tokens stored at the National Library, and must have been struck for the municipality of Mantes , during the sixteenth and seventeenth century.....................

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AB. EQVIS. VICTORIA. - In the field, a winged horse, galloping

right. Epigraph, 1585. - This token bears the same arms as the previous, if it

does not belong to the town of Mantes, it must at least belong to the family in who's honor of the previous Mantes token that was struck.

SIC. IVNCTA. QVERCV. LILIA. MANTA. GERIT. — .in the field, a dog as above, FIDELIS COMES. - 1579.

The dog was the emblem of fidelity of the inhabitants of Mantes. In the Middle Ages, and until the revolution, there was in this city a crossbow company, sort of

bourgeois militia Arbalestriers companions, people estat, experts and souffîsans to serve seurement honestly and to the defense of the king and the city of Mante. In 1411, Charles VI reconstructed this company, which he granted exemptions or privileges, and increased the number to twenty, which he named the top ten leaving them the choice of The ten different companies rafters differed by about names or sayings. Thus Badauds of Paris was said, the Cats Meaux, the crayfish Etampes, Fisheries Corbeil, eggs Magny, the Owls grind, Wolves and Dogs Limay Mantes. Henri IV alluded to this saying when he told inhabitants of Mantes, who brought him the keys to their city after the Battle of Ivry: "Good dogs always return to their master".

http://www.cgbfr.com/ile-de-france-villes-et-noblesse-mantes,fjt_228141,a.html

[bagerap]

Thanks Pat. This looks as if it may have been google translated from another language. Could you provide the source please?

[constanius]

http://books.google.ca/books?id=C0fC8viKaS0C&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=LILIA.+MANTA.+GERIT.&source=bl&ots=WCS6mBaRet&sig=eLiNu42e94S-FiXKW08Ik7fDcjo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jCHpUvfuLKrB2QX82YGYAQ&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

http://www.cgbfr.com/ile-de-france-villes-et-noblesse-mantes,fjt_228141,a.html

 

FEUARDENT 5992

[bagerap]

Thank you very much, it's all so much clearer now.

[constanius]

My pleasure

[frank]

This undated jeton (which is the same as that shown on the cgbfr site) is a Nuremburg copy of the original described in Feuardent. The engraver is Kilian Koch, who produced a fair amount of copies of French jetons in the late 16th century.

 

In this jeton (see the cgbfr site for better detail) he puts his own signature crest around Pegasus's neck! Cf this jeton with the crest between his initials:

 

[Ian]

I just bought one of these a couple of weeks ago but haven't had the time to do my research on it as yet. Maybe Pegasus took to flight when it saw two scantily clad soldiers dancing with a giant fleur de lis (?)

[frank]

I have a medium-sized collection of Kilian Koch jetons. His style is immediately recognizable.