The Siege of Aire

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1276. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOW COUNTRIES, Aire. AR Cinquante Sols. Siege issue. Dated 1710. (Sacred Heart) PRO • REGE • ET • PATRIA • ARIA • 50 • OBs•, crowned coat-of-arms of Maréchal de Guebriant (Goesbriand); all within reeded border / Blank. Brause-Mansfeld pl. IX, 5; Maillet 5. In an NGC slab graded XF 40, small area of flat strike.

Aire, a town held by the French, was besieged from 6 September to 9 November, falling to Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt. The assault on Aire was part of the Flanders campaign of the Grand Alliance, which sought to push France from the Low Countries.