| Medieval Coins of France |  |
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| France, Louis XII, 8 April 1498 - 31 December 1514 |   | To marry Anne of Brittany and absorb Brittany into France, Louis claimed his wife Joan of France was physically malformed and unable to consummate the marriage. Joan produced witnesses to Louis' boast of having "mounted my wife three or four times during the night." In a decision predetermined by politics, the marriage was annulled. After Anne died, Louis married Mary Tudor, the sister of Henry VIII, King of England. Louis had no living sons; he was desperate to produce an heir. He died less than three months after he married Mary, reputedly worn out by bedchamber exertions. |
| SL54549. Gold Ecu, Duplessy 647, NGC XF 40, Saint Lô mint, obverse crown, LVDOVICVS : DEI : GRA : FRANCORVM : REX, crowned arms of France, sun above, pellet mint mark at 19th position on inner border; reverse crown, XPS : VINCIT : XPS : REGNAT : XPS : IMPERAT, cross fleurée (arms ending in lis) with pellet inside quatrafoil in the center, pellet mint mark at 19th position on inner border; SOLD |
| France, Henry III, 1574 - 1589 |  | Three months after Henri was made the elected king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, his brother, Charles IX of France, died and Henri returned to France to assume the French throne. Henri brought several Polish inventions back to France, including septic facilities which deposited excrement outside the castle walls, a bath with regulated hot and cold water, and the fork.
Henri gave protestant Huguenots the right of public worship, except in Paris and at Court. In response, Henry I, Duke of Guise, formed the Catholic League. Henri III was eventually forced to flee Paris. After he had the duke assassinated, Henri III prepared to return to Paris but was murdered before he could return.
During the French Revolution Henri III was disinterred from his tomb, his body was desecrated and thrown into a common grave.
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| WO54363. Silver 1/8 Ecu, Duplessy 1134, VF, weight 4.850 g, maximum diameter 26.6 mm, die axis 0o, Rennes mint, 1587; obverse SIT NOMEN DOMINI BENEDICTVM, crowned arms of France, V - III across fields, 9 (Rennes) below; reverse + HENRICVS III D G FRANC ET POL 1587, cross fleurée (arms ending in lis) with cruciform flower in the center; SOLD |
| France, Philip IV, 1285 - 1314 A.D. |  | King Philip IV, deeply in debt to the Knights Templar, took advantage of rumors about the Order's secret initiation ceremony. On Friday, October 13, 1307, he had the Order's members in France arrested (the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition). Pope Clement, under threat from Philip, instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets. Many Templars were tortured into giving false confessions and burned at the stake. Grand Master Jacques de Molay, burned alive in Paris in 1314, called out from the flames, "Dieu sait qui a tort et a pëché. Il va bientot arriver malheur à ceux qui nous ont condamnés à mort" ("God knows who is wrong and has sinned. Soon a calamity will occur to those who have condemned us to death"). Pope Clement died only a month later, and King Philip died in a hunting accident before the end of the year. |
| ME47829. Silver Gros Tournois, Duplessy 213 ff., F, slightly grainy, weight 3.664 g, maximum diameter 25.9 mm, die axis 0o, obverse + BNDICTV: SIT: NOmE: DNI: nRI: DEI: IhV. XPI (outer), + PhILIPPVS REX (inner), cross pattée, legend around in two rows; reverse TVRONVS CIVIS, Châtel tournois topped with a cross, border of twelve lis within arches; SOLD |
| France, Philip IV, 1285 - 1314 A.D. |  | King Philip IV, deeply in debt to the Knights Templar, took advantage of rumors about the Order's secret initiation ceremony. On Friday, October 13, 1307, he had the Order's members in France arrested (the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition). Pope Clement, under threat from Philip, instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets. Many Templars were tortured into giving false confessions and burned at the stake. Grand Master Jacques de Molay, burned alive in Paris in 1314, called out from the flames, "Dieu sait qui a tort et a pëché. Il va bientot arriver malheur à ceux qui nous ont condamnés à mort" ("God knows who is wrong and has sinned. Soon a calamity will occur to those who have condemned us to death"). Pope Clement died only a month later, and King Philip died in a hunting accident before the end of the year. |
| ME47830. Silver Gros Tournois, Duplessy 213 ff., F, slightly grainy, weight 3.749 g, maximum diameter 25.8 mm, die axis 195o, obverse + BNDICTV: SIT: NOmE: DNI: nRI: DEI: IhV. XPI (outer), + PhILIPPVS REX (inner), cross pattée, legend around in two rows; reverse TVRONVS CIVIS, Châtel tournois topped with a cross, border of twelve lis within arches; SOLD |
| France, Philip IV, 1285 - 1314 A.D. |  | King Philip IV, deeply in debt to the Knights Templar, took advantage of rumors about the Order's secret initiation ceremony. On Friday, October 13, 1307, he had the Order's members in France arrested (the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition). Pope Clement, under threat from Philip, instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets. Many Templars were tortured into giving false confessions and burned at the stake. Grand Master Jacques de Molay, burned alive in Paris in 1314, called out from the flames, "Dieu sait qui a tort et a pëché. Il va bientot arriver malheur à ceux qui nous ont condamnés à mort" ("God knows who is wrong and has sinned. Soon a calamity will occur to those who have condemned us to death"). Pope Clement died only a month later, and King Philip died in a hunting accident before the end of the year. |
| ME47831. Silver Gros Tournois, Duplessy 213 ff., F, slightly grainy, weight 3.826 g, maximum diameter 25.4 mm, die axis 0o, obverse + BNDICTV: SIT: NOmE: DNI: nRI: DEI: IhV. XPI (outer), + PhILIPPVS REX (inner), cross pattée, legend around in two rows; reverse TVRONVS CIVIS, Châtel tournois topped with a cross, border of twelve lis within arches; SOLD |
| France, Philip IV, 1285 - 1314 A.D. |  | King Philip IV, deeply in debt to the Knights Templar, took advantage of rumors about the Order's secret initiation ceremony. On Friday, October 13, 1307, he had the Order's members in France arrested (the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition). Pope Clement, under threat from Philip, instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets. Many Templars were tortured into giving false confessions and burned at the stake. Grand Master Jacques de Molay, burned alive in Paris in 1314, called out from the flames, "Dieu sait qui a tort et a pëché. Il va bientot arriver malheur à ceux qui nous ont condamnés à mort" ("God knows who is wrong and has sinned. Soon a calamity will occur to those who have condemned us to death"). Pope Clement died only a month later, and King Philip died in a hunting accident before the end of the year. |
| ME47833. Silver Gros Tournois, Duplessy 213 ff., F, slightly grainy, weight 3.628 g, maximum diameter 25.5 mm, die axis 45o, obverse + BNDICTV: SIT: NOmE: DNI: nRI: DEI: IhV. XPI (outer), + PhILIPPVS REX (inner), cross pattée, legend around in two rows; reverse TVRONVS CIVIS, Châtel tournois topped with a cross, border of twelve lis within arches; SOLD |
| France, Philip IV, 1285 - 1314 A.D. |  | King Philip IV, deeply in debt to the Knights Templar, took advantage of rumors about the Order's secret initiation ceremony. On Friday, October 13, 1307, he had the Order's members in France arrested (the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition). Pope Clement, under threat from Philip, instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets. Many Templars were tortured into giving false confessions and burned at the stake. Grand Master Jacques de Molay, burned alive in Paris in 1314, called out from the flames, "Dieu sait qui a tort et a pëché. Il va bientot arriver malheur à ceux qui nous ont condamnés à mort" ("God knows who is wrong and has sinned. Soon a calamity will occur to those who have condemned us to death"). Pope Clement died only a month later, and King Philip died in a hunting accident before the end of the year. |
| ME47832. Silver Gros Tournois, Duplessy 213 ff., aF, weight 3.720 g, maximum diameter 26.8 mm, die axis 90o, obverse + BNDICTV: SIT: NOmE: DNI: nRI: DEI: IhV. XPI (outer), + PhILIPPVS REX (inner), cross pattée, legend around in two rows; reverse TVRONVS CIVIS, Châtel tournois topped with a cross, border of twelve lis within arches; SOLD |
| France, Philip I, 1060 - 1108 A.D. |  | Philip's name, exotic for Western Europe at the time, was derived from Philippos (Greek, meaning "lover of horses"). He was crowned at seven, his mother was the first queen of France to act as regent. Philip was excommunicated after he repudiated his first wife (claiming she was too fat) and taking another. His reign was extraordinarily long for the time. |
| ME52432. Silver denier, Duplessy 50, Roberts 2376, VF, weight 1.179 g, maximum diameter 21.3 mm, die axis 135o, Orléans mint, obverse + PHILIPVS X REX D-I, Gate, IN-I-IC/AT around and inside; reverse + AVRELIANIS CIVITA, cross cantonnée, S in the 1st and 4th quadrants; SOLD |
| France, Philip I, 1060 - 1108 A.D. |  | |
| ME47858. Silver denier, Duplessy 50, gF, weight 1.274 g, maximum diameter 22.7 mm, die axis 180o, Orléans mint, obverse + PHILIPVS X REX D-I, Gate, flanked by NI-IC, I above, LT, inside; reverse + AVRELIANIS CIVITA, cross cantonnée, S in the 1st and 4th quadrants; SOLD |
| France, Philip I, 1060 - 1108 A.D. |  | Philip's name, exotic for Western Europe at the time, was derived from Philippos (Greek, meaning "lover of horses"). He was crowned at seven, his mother was the first queen of France to act as regent. Philip was excommunicated after he repudiated his first wife (claiming she was too fat) and taking another. His reign was extraordinarily long for the time. |
| ME47860. Silver denier, Duplessy 50, Roberts 2376, aVF, weight 1.148 g, maximum diameter 21.6 mm, die axis 90o, Orléans mint, obverse + PHILIPVS X REX D-I, Gate, NI-I-IC around, AT inside; reverse + AVRELIANIS CIVITA, cross cantonnée, S in the 1st and 4th quadrants; SOLD |
| France, Philip IV the Fair, 1285 - 1314 |  | King Philip IV, deeply in debt to the Knights Templar, took advantage of rumors about the Order's secret initiation ceremony. On Friday, October 13, 1307, he had the Order's members in France arrested (the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition). Pope Clement, under threat from Philip, instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets. Many Templars were tortured into giving false confessions and burned at the stake. Grand Master Jacques de Molay, burned alive in Paris in 1314, called out from the flames, "Dieu sait qui a tort et a pëché. Il va bientot arriver malheur à ceux qui nous ont condamnés à mort" ("God knows who is wrong and has sinned. Soon a calamity will occur to those who have condemned us to death"). Pope Clement died only a month later, and King Philip died in a hunting accident before the end of the year. |
| ME58619. Silver double tournois, Duplessy 229, aVF, clashed dies, weight 1.020 g, maximum diameter 21.6 mm, die axis 180o, 1295 - 1303; obverse + PhILIPPVS REX, short cross pattée, lis in quarter; reverse + MON DVPLEX REGAL, roof of Châtel tournois, between lis; rare; SOLD |
| France, Henri IV, 1589 - 1610 |  | |
| ME47846. Copper double tournois, Duplessy 1273, Lafaurie 1111, aVF, weight 3.087 g, maximum diameter 20.6 mm, die axis 180o, Paris mint, 1608; obverse HENRI•IIII•R•DE•FRAN•ET•NAV, laureate and cuirassed bust of Henry IV right, A (Paris mint mark) below; reverse + DOVBLE•TOVRNOIS•1608, three lis in the central field, two lis above, one below; SOLD |
| France, Philip I, 1060 - 1108 A.D. |  | Philip's name, exotic for Western Europe at the time, was derived from Philippos (Greek, meaning "lover of horses"). He was crowned at seven, his mother was the first queen of France to act as regent. Philip was excommunicated after he repudiated his first wife (claiming she was too fat) and taking another. His reign was extraordinarily long for the time. |
| ME47849. Silver denier, Duplessy 50, Roberts 2376, gF, weight 1.202 g, maximum diameter 21.5 mm, die axis 180o, Orléans mint, obverse + PHILIPVS X REX D-I, Gate, NI-I-IC around, AT inside; reverse + AVRELIANIS CIVITA, cross cantonnée, S in the 1st and 4th quadrants; SOLD |
| France, Philip I, 1060 - 1108 A.D. |  | Philip's name, exotic for Western Europe at the time, was derived from Philippos (Greek, meaning "lover of horses"). He was crowned at seven, his mother was the first queen of France to act as regent. Philip was excommunicated after he repudiated his first wife (claiming she was too fat) and taking another. His reign was extraordinarily long for the time. |
| ME47856. Silver denier, Duplessy 50, Roberts 2376, aVF, weight 1.232 g, maximum diameter 22.3 mm, die axis 180o, Orléans mint, obverse + PHILIPVS X REX D-I, Gate, NI-I-IC around, AT inside; reverse + AVRELIANIS CIVITA, cross cantonnée, S in the 1st and 4th quadrants; SOLD |
| France, Charles VI, 1380 - 1422 |  | |
| ME48955. Silver florette, Duplessy 387, F, weight 3.254 g, maximum diameter 25.8 mm, die axis 270o, 1st royal emission, 1417; obverse +KAROLVS:FRANCORV:REX, crown above 3 lis; reverse +SIT:NOME:DNI:BENEDICTV, cross fleury with crown in two angles; SOLD |
| France, Philip III, 1270 - 1285, Medival Counterfeit |  | |
| ME54782. Fouree silver plated denier tournois, cf. Duplessy 204 (official, silver), gF, traces of silvering, weight 0.741 g, maximum diameter 16.7 mm, die axis 270o, illegal mint, obverse +PHILIPVS • REX, cross pattée; reverse TVRONVS • CIVIS, châtel tournois; SOLD |
| France, Henri IV, 1574 - 1589, Marriage Treizain |  | Gold plated, likely to serve as a marriage treizain, a medal blessed and exchanged by couples on the day of their marriage. This custom lasted until the 19th century. |
| ME47844. Copper double tournois, Duplessy 1273, gF, weight 3.047 g, maximum diameter 20.5 mm, die axis 180o, Paris mint, 1605; obverse HENRI•IIII•R•DE•FRAN•ET•NAV A, laureate and cuirassed bust of Henry III right, A (Paris mint mark) below; reverse + DOVBLE•TOVRNOIS•1605, three lis in the central field, two lis above, one below; SOLD |
| France, Philip I, 1060 - 1108 A.D. |  | Philip's name, exotic for Western Europe at the time, was derived from Philippos (Greek, meaning "lover of horses"). He was crowned at seven, his mother was the first queen of France to act as regent. Philip was excommunicated after he repudiated his first wife (claiming she was too fat) and taking another. His reign was extraordinarily long for the time. |
| ME47850. Silver denier, Duplessy 50, Roberts 2376, gF, weight 1.147 g, maximum diameter 22.4 mm, die axis 0o, Orléans mint, obverse + PHILIPVS X REX D-I, Gate, NI-I-IC around, AT inside; reverse + AVRELIANIS CIVITA, cross cantonnée, S in the 1st and 4th quadrants; SOLD |
| France, Philip I, 1060 - 1108 A.D. |  | Philip's name, exotic for Western Europe at the time, was derived from Philippos (Greek, meaning "lover of horses"). He was crowned at seven, his mother was the first queen of France to act as regent. Philip was excommunicated after he repudiated his first wife (claiming she was too fat) and taking another. His reign was extraordinarily long for the time. |
| ME47851. Silver denier, Duplessy 50, Roberts 2376, gF, weight 1.140 g, maximum diameter 21.8 mm, die axis 225o, Orléans mint, obverse + PHILIPVS X REX D-I, Gate, NI-I-IC around, AT inside; reverse + AVRELIANIS CIVITA, cross cantonnée, S in the 1st and 4th quadrants; SOLD |
| France, Philip I, 1060 - 1108 A.D. |  | Philip's name, exotic for Western Europe at the time, was derived from Philippos (Greek, meaning "lover of horses"). He was crowned at seven, his mother was the first queen of France to act as regent. Philip was excommunicated after he repudiated his first wife (claiming she was too fat) and taking another. His reign was extraordinarily long for the time. |
| ME47857. Silver denier, Duplessy 50, Roberts 2376, F, weight 1.257 g, maximum diameter 22.8 mm, die axis 135o, Orléans mint, obverse + PHILIPVS X REX D-I, Gate, NI-I-IC around, AT inside; reverse + AVRELIANIS CIVITA, cross cantonnée, S in the 1st and 4th quadrants; SOLD |
| France, Philip I, 1060 - 1108 A.D. |  | Philip's name, exotic for Western Europe at the time, was derived from Philippos (Greek, meaning "lover of horses"). He was crowned at seven, his mother was the first queen of France to act as regent. Philip was excommunicated after he repudiated his first wife (claiming she was too fat) and taking another. His reign was extraordinarily long for the time. |
| ME47859. Silver denier, Duplessy 50, Roberts 2376, gF, weight 1.193 g, maximum diameter 21.3 mm, die axis 315o, Orléans mint, obverse + PHILIPVS X REX D-I, Gate, NI-I-IC around, AT inside; reverse + AVRELIANIS CIVITA, cross cantonnée, S in the 1st and 4th quadrants; SOLD |
| Strasbourg, France, Louis XIV, 1683 |  | Under Louis XIV, the Sun King, France reached the apogee of its power. His reign began at age four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days; one of the longest of any European monarch. He fought three major wars: the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession. Louis converted a hunting lodge into the spectacular Palace of Versailles, and by compelling the noble elite to inhabit his lavish palace, he pacified the aristocracy and eliminated the remnants of feudalism. He consolidated a system of absolute monarchical rule in France that endured until the French Revolution. |
| WO54808. Silver 2 sols, Duplessy 1598, Krause 246, aVF, crease, weight 1.433 g, maximum diameter 21.3 mm, die axis 180o, Strasbourg mint, 1683; obverse MONE NOV ARGENTINEN:, large fleur-de-lis; reverse GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO, •II• / •SOLS• / •1683•; SOLD |
| France, Louis XIV the Sun King, 1643 - 1715, Counterfeit |  | Under Louis XIV, the Sun King, France reached the apogee of its power. His reign began at age four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days; one of the longest of any European monarch. He fought three major wars: the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession. Louis converted a hunting lodge into the spectacular Palace of Versailles, and by compelling the noble elite to inhabit his lavish palace, he pacified the aristocracy and eliminated the remnants of feudalism. He consolidated a system of absolute monarchical rule in France that endured until the French Revolution. |
| WO58408. Silver 1/12th ecu, counterfeit, low weight, debased silver; cf. Duplessy 1464, Krause KM 199.5 (official, Limoges mint, c. 2.287 grams), F, small crack, weight 1.500 g, maximum diameter 20.1 mm, die axis 180o, illegal counterfeiter's mint, 1662; obverse D.G.ER.EINAV.IRXI.IIVD.XIIII (or similar, blundered), young portrait right, laureate, armored and draped; reverse SII.NOLEN,DOLIRV.ERNE...CILV.1661 (or similar, blundered), crowned arms of France (shield with three lis), I (Limoges mint mark) below; SOLD |
| France, Louis XIV the Sun King, 1643 - 1715 |  | Under Louis XIV, the Sun King, France reached the apogee of its power. His reign began at age four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days; one of the longest of any European monarch. He fought three major wars: the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession. Louis converted a hunting lodge into the spectacular Palace of Versailles, and by compelling the noble elite to inhabit his lavish palace, he pacified the aristocracy and eliminated the remnants of feudalism. He consolidated a system of absolute monarchical rule in France that endured until the French Revolution. |
| WO59110. Silver 1/12th ecu, Duplessy 1464, Krause KM 199.11, VF, weight 2.330 g, maximum diameter 20.8 mm, die axis 180o, Saint-Andre de Villeneuve-les-Avignon mint, 1661; obverse D.G.FR.ET.NAV.REX.LVD.XIIII, young portrait right, laureate, armored and draped; reverse SIT.NOMEN,DOMIN.BENEDICTVM.1661, crowned arms of France (shield with three lis), •R• (mint mark) below; SOLD |
| County of La Marche, France, Hugues IX of Lusignan, 1199 - 1219 A.D. |  | In 1208 , Hugh IX sold his land to his son and left to spend the rest of his life on crusade in the Holy Land where he died at Damietta, 5 November 1219. |
| ME47186. Billon denier, Boudeau 437, VF, weight 0.881 g, maximum diameter 18.4 mm, obverse + MARCHIE *, crosslet surrounded by two crescents and two annulets, within inner border; reverse + VGO COMES, cross pattée; rare; SOLD |
| France, Philip I, 1060 - 1108 A.D. |  | Philip's name, exotic for Western Europe at the time, was derived from Philippos (Greek, meaning "lover of horses"). He was crowned at seven, his mother was the first queen of France to act as regent. Philip was excommunicated after he repudiated his first wife (claiming she was too fat) and taking another. His reign was extraordinarily long for the time. |
| ME47848. Silver denier, Duplessy 50, Roberts 2376, gF, weight 1.292 g, maximum diameter 21.4 mm, die axis 315o, Orléans mint, obverse + PHILIPVS X REX D-I, Gate, NI-I-IC around, AT inside; reverse + AVRELIANIS CIVITA, cross cantonnée, S in the 1st and 4th quadrants; miniscule piercing in third quadrant; rare; SOLD |
| County of La Marche, France, Hugues IX of Lusignan, 1199 - 1219 A.D. |  | In 1208 , Hugh IX sold his land to his son and left to spend the rest of his life on crusade in the Holy Land where he died at Damietta, 5 November 1219. |
| ME47185. Billon denier, Boudeau 437, aVF, weight 0.780 g, maximum diameter 18.4 mm, die axis 180o, obverse + MARCHIE *, crosslet surrounded by two crescents and two annulets, within inner border; reverse + VGO COMES, cross pattée; rare; SOLD |
| County of La Marche, France, Hugues IX of Lusignan, 1199 - 1219 A.D. |  | In 1208 , Hugh IX sold his land to his son and left to spend the rest of his life on crusade in the Holy Land where he died at Damietta, 5 November 1219. |
| ME47189. Billon denier, Boudeau 437, aVF, weight 0.804 g, maximum diameter 18.5 mm, die axis 180o, obverse + MARCHIE *, crosslet surrounded by two crescents and two annulets, within inner border; reverse + VGO COMES, cross pattée; rare; SOLD |
| France, Philip I, 1060 - 1108 A.D. |  | Philip's name, exotic for Western Europe at the time, was derived from Philippos (Greek, meaning "lover of horses"). He was crowned at seven, his mother was the first queen of France to act as regent. Philip was excommunicated after he repudiated his first wife (claiming she was too fat) and taking another. His reign was extraordinarily long for the time. |
| ME47854. Silver denier, Duplessy 50, Roberts 2376, F, weight 1.258 g, maximum diameter 22.1 mm, die axis 270o, Orléans mint, obverse + PHILIPVS X REX D-I, Gate, NI-I-IC around, AT inside; reverse + AVRELIANIS CIVITA, cross cantonnée, S in the 1st and 4th quadrants; SOLD |
| France, Louis XIII, 1610 - 1643 |  | James I's ambassador to Paris, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, remarked on Louis' extreme congenital speech impediment, and his double teeth: "...the king [Louis] assured me of a reciprocal affection to the king [James] my master, and of my particular welcome to his Court: his words were never many, as being so extreme a stutterer that he would sometimes hold his tongue out of his mouth a good while before he could speak so much as one word; he had besides a double row of teeth, and was observed seldom or never to spit or blow his nose, or to sweat much, tho he were very laborious and almost indefatigable in his exercises of hunting or hawking, to which he was much addicted..." |
| ME48689. Copper double tournois, Duplessy 1358, VF, weight 2.884 g, maximum diameter 20.3 mm, die axis 180o, Amiens mint, 1615; obverse •LOVIS•XIII RDE• FRAN•ET•NAVA, laureate bust right within circle, X (Amiens mint mark) below; reverse +DOVBLE TOVRNOIS•1615, three lis in the central field within circle, two lis above, one below; SOLD |
| France, Philip I, 1060 - 1108 A.D. |  | Philip's name, exotic for Western Europe at the time, was derived from Philippos (Greek, meaning "lover of horses"). He was crowned at seven, his mother was the first queen of France to act as regent. Philip was excommunicated after he repudiated his first wife (claiming she was too fat) and taking another. His reign was extraordinarily long for the time. |
| ME47852. Silver denier, Duplessy 50, Roberts 2376, F, weight 1.248 g, maximum diameter 21.9 mm, die axis 135o, Orléans mint, obverse + PHILIPVS X REX D-I, Gate, NI-I-IC around, AT inside; reverse + AVRELIANIS CIVITA, cross cantonnée, S in the 1st and 4th quadrants; SOLD |
| County of La Marche, France, Hugues IX of Lusignan, 1199 - 1219 A.D. |  | In 1208 , Hugh IX sold his land to his son and left to spend the rest of his life on crusade in the Holy Land where he died at Damietta, 5 November 1219. |
| ME47188. Billon denier, Boudeau 437, aVF, weight 0.925 g, maximum diameter 18.9 mm, die axis 0o, obverse + MARCHIE *, crosslet surrounded by two crescents and two annulets, within inner border; reverse + VGO COMES, cross pattée; rare; SOLD |
| France, Louis IX, Saint Louis, 1226 - 1270 A.D. |  | St Louis was renowned for his charity. The peace and blessings of the realm come to us through the poor he would say. Beggars were fed from his table, he ate their leavings, washed their feet, ministered to the wants of lepers, and daily fed over one hundred poor. He founded the House of the Felles-Dieu for reformed prostitutes, the Quinze-Vingt for 300 blind men, and hospitals at Pontoise, Vernon, and Compiégne. |
| ME47825. Silver denier tournois, Duplessy 193, Thomsen 2945, Roberts 2413, F, weight 0.955 g, maximum diameter 18.3 mm, die axis 90o, Tours mint, 1266 - 1270; obverse + LVDOVICVS REX, cross within inner beaded circle; reverse + TURONVS CIVIS, castle tournois; SOLD |
| France, Henri III, 1574 - 1589 |  | Three months after Henri was made the elected king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, his brother, Charles IX of France, died and Henri returned to France to assume the French throne. Henri brought several Polish inventions back to France, including septic facilities which deposited excrement outside the castle walls, a bath with regulated hot and cold water, and the fork.
Henri gave protestant Huguenots the right of public worship, except in Paris and at Court. In response, Henry I, Duke of Guise, formed the Catholic League. Henri III was eventually forced to flee Paris. After he had the duke assassinated, Henri III prepared to return to Paris but was murdered before he could return.
During the French Revolution Henri III was disinterred from his tomb, his body was desecrated and thrown into a common grave. |
| ME47834. Copper double tournois, Duplessy 1152, CGKL 84, Lafaurie 992, F, wavy, dings, scratches, weight 3.203 g, maximum diameter 20.8 mm, die axis 180o, Paris mint, 1579; obverse HENRI•III•R•DE•FRAN•ET•POL, laureate and cuirassed bust of Henry III right, A (Paris mint mark) below; reverse + DOVBLE•TOVRNOIS•1579, three lis in the central field, two lis above, one below; SOLD |
| France, Henri III, 1574 - 1589 |  | Three months after Henri was made the elected king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, his brother, Charles IX of France, died and Henri returned to France to assume the French throne. Henri brought several Polish inventions back to France, including septic facilities which deposited excrement outside the castle walls, a bath with regulated hot and cold water, and the fork.
Henri gave protestant Huguenots the right of public worship, except in Paris and at Court. In response, Henry I, Duke of Guise, formed the Catholic League. Henri III was eventually forced to flee Paris. After he had the duke assassinated, Henri III prepared to return to Paris but was murdered before he could return.
During the French Revolution Henri III was disinterred from his tomb, his body was desecrated and thrown into a common grave. |
| ME48730. Copper double tournois, CGKL 12, Duplessy 1152, F, weight 2.844 g, maximum diameter 20.6 mm, die axis 0o, Rouen mint, undated; obverse HENRI•III•R•DE•FRAN•ET•POL, laureate and cuirassed bust of Henry III right, •B• (Rouen mint mark) below; reverse + DOVBLE•TOVRNOIS• flower, three lis in the central field, two lis above, one below; black and brown patina; SOLD |
| France, Philip I, 1060 - 1108 A.D. |  | Philip's name, exotic for Western Europe at the time, was derived from Philippos (Greek, meaning "lover of horses"). He was crowned at seven, his mother was the first queen of France to act as regent. Philip was excommunicated after he repudiated his first wife (claiming she was too fat) and taking another. His reign was extraordinarily long for the time. |
| ME47853. Silver denier, Duplessy 50, Roberts 2376, F, weight 1.192 g, maximum diameter 21.7 mm, die axis 0o, Orléans mint, obverse + PHILIPVS X REX D-I, Gate, NI-I-IC around, AT inside; reverse + AVRELIANIS CIVITA, cross cantonnée, S in the 1st and 4th quadrants; SOLD |
| France, Philip I, 1060 - 1108 A.D. |  | Philip's name, exotic for Western Europe at the time, was derived from Philippos (Greek, meaning "lover of horses"). He was crowned at seven, his mother was the first queen of France to act as regent. Philip was excommunicated after he repudiated his first wife (claiming she was too fat) and taking another. His reign was extraordinarily long for the time. |
| ME47855. Silver denier, Duplessy 50, Roberts 2376, F, weight 1.199 g, maximum diameter 21.8 mm, die axis 90o, Orléans mint, obverse + PHILIPVS X REX D-I, Gate, NI-I-IC around, AT inside; reverse + AVRELIANIS CIVITA, cross cantonnée, S in the 1st and 4th quadrants; SOLD |
| County of Toulouse, France, Raymond V - VII, 1148 - 1249 |  | Toulouse was home to some Cathars, who the Catholic Church condemned as heretical. The orthodox White Brotherhood and the hereticals Blacks fought in the streets of the city. Raymond VI, who was excommunicated for a dispute with the pope, sympathised with the heretics. In 1216, the crusader Simon de Montfort, threatening to kill many hostages, entered the city, and appointed himself count. Raymond VI retook the city in 1217. While besieging the city again in 1218, Simon was killed by a stone from from the defenders' trebuchet (or a mangonel), said to have been operated by girls and women of the city. |
| ME59119. Silver denier, Boudeau 721, Poey 3702, VF, weight 1.200 g, maximum diameter 19.8 mm, die axis 0o, Toulous mint, 1148 - 1249; obverse RAMON COMES, cross, S in the second quarter; reverse TOLOSA CIVI, PAX clockwise in the center; SOLD |
| County of La Marche, France, Hugues IX of Lusignan, 1199 - 1219 A.D. |  | In 1208 , Hugh IX sold his land to his son and left to spend the rest of his life on crusade in the Holy Land where he died at Damietta, 5 November 1219. |
| ME47190. Billon denier, Boudeau 437, aVF, weight 0.678 g, maximum diameter 19.4 mm, obverse + MARCHIE *, crosslet surrounded by two crescents and two annulets, within inner border; reverse + VGO COMES, cross pattée; rare; SOLD |
| France, Louis XIII, 1610 - 1643 |  | James I's ambassador to Paris, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, remarked on Louis' extreme congenital speech impediment, and his double teeth: "...the king [Louis] assured me of a reciprocal affection to the king [James] my master, and of my particular welcome to his Court: his words were never many, as being so extreme a stutterer that he would sometimes hold his tongue out of his mouth a good while before he could speak so much as one word; he had besides a double row of teeth, and was observed seldom or never to spit or blow his nose, or to sweat much, tho he were very laborious and almost indefatigable in his exercises of hunting or hawking, to which he was much addicted..." |
| ME48693. Copper double tournois, CGKL 350, type 7 (a2); Duplessy 1368, F, weight 2.437 g, maximum diameter 21.2 mm, die axis 180o, Lyon mint, 1630; obverse •LOVIS•XIIIR•D•FRAN•ET•NAVA, laureate bust right within circle, D( mint mark) below; reverse X DOVBLE TOVRNOIS•1630, three lis in the central field within circle, two lis above, one below; SOLD |
| France Feudal, Bishops of Valence and Die, 12th - 13th Century, Possibly a Crusader Imitative |  | In 1275 the bishoprics of Valence and Die were merged. The reverse legend refers to St. Apollinaris, the patron saint of the cathedral in Valence.
Valence deniers are found in significant quantities in hoards from the Crusader possessions in the east. The type is catalogued as Metcalf Crusades 39 - 40, Group Di. Some of the cruder varieties, such as this, may be eastern imitations of the French issue. |
| ME55715. Silver denier, Poey 4690; Roberts 4782 var.; Boudeau 1021; Metcalf Crusades 39-40, Group Di, gF, weight 0.697 g, maximum diameter 17.2 mm, die axis 45o, Valence or eastern crusader mint, 12th - 13th Century; obverse + VRBS VALENTIAI, angel facing with spread wings, resembling an eagle; reverse + S APOLLINARS, cross pommée, annulet in 4th quarter; SOLD |
| France, Henri III, 1574 - 1589 |  | Three months after Henri was made the elected king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, his brother, Charles IX of France, died and Henri returned to France to assume the French throne. Henri brought several Polish inventions back to France, including septic facilities which deposited excrement outside the castle walls, a bath with regulated hot and cold water, and the fork.
Henri gave protestant Huguenots the right of public worship, except in Paris and at Court. In response, Henry I, Duke of Guise, formed the Catholic League. Henri III was eventually forced to flee Paris. After he had the duke assassinated, Henri III prepared to return to Paris but was murdered before he could return.
During the French Revolution Henri III was disinterred from his tomb, his body was desecrated and thrown into a common grave.
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| ME47845. Copper double tournois, Duplessy 1170, CGKL 86, Sb. 4072, aVF, weight 3.166 g, maximum diameter 20.7 mm, die axis 180o, Paris mint, obverse HENRI III R DE FRAN ET POL, laureate and cuirassed bust of Henry III right, A (Paris mint mark) below; reverse + DOVBLE TOVRNOIS crown, three lis in the central field, two lis above, one below; SOLD |
| France, Henri III, 1574 - 1589 |  | |
| ME47847. Copper double tournois, Duplessy 1152, CGKL 86, Sb. 4072, F, weight 2.840 g, maximum diameter 20.6 mm, die axis 180o, Paris mint, 1589; obverse HENRI•IIII•R•DE•FRAN•ET•POL, laureate and cuirassed bust of Henry III right, A (Paris mint mark) below; reverse + DOVBLE•TOVRNOIS•1589, three lis in the central field, two lis above, one below; SOLD |
| County of Melgueil, France, Bishop de Maguelonne, 11th - 13th Century A.D. |  | |
| ME43478. Silver denier, Boudeau 753, VF, weight 1.067 g, maximum diameter 17.8 mm, Maguelonne mint, 12th - 13th Century A.D.; obverse blundered legend, crossed formed with pillar and episcopal mitres, pellet in upper left quarter; reverse blundered legend, 4 annulets around a center pellet; SOLD |
| France, Louis XIV the Sun King, 1643 - 1715 |  | Under Louis XIV, the Sun King, France reached the apogee of its power. His reign began at age four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days; one of the longest of any European monarch. He fought three major wars: the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession. Louis converted a hunting lodge into the spectacular Palace of Versailles, and by compelling the noble elite to inhabit his lavish palace, he pacified the aristocracy and eliminated the remnants of feudalism. He consolidated a system of absolute monarchical rule in France that endured until the French Revolution. |
| WO59107. Silver 1/12th ecu, Duplessy 1464, Krause KM 199.11, F, weight 2.205 g, maximum diameter 20.8 mm, die axis 180o, Rouen mint, 1662; obverse D.G.FR.ET.NAV.REX.LVD.XIIII, young portrait right, laureate, armored and draped; reverse SIT.NOMEN,DOMIN.BENEDICTVM.1661, crowned arms of France (shield with three lis), •B• (mint mark) below; SOLD |
| County of La Marche, France, Hugues IX of Lusignan, 1199 - 1219 A.D. |  | In 1208 , Hugh IX sold his land to his son and left to spend the rest of his life on crusade in the Holy Land where he died at Damietta, 5 November 1219. |
| ME47187. Billon denier, Boudeau 437, aVF, ragged flan, weight 0.708 g, maximum diameter 18.4 mm, obverse + MARCHIE *, crosslet surrounded by two crescents and two annulets, within inner border; reverse + VGO COMES, cross pattée; rare; SOLD |
| France, Louis IX, Saint Louis, 1226 - 1270 A.D. |  | St Louis was renowned for his charity. The peace and blessings of the realm come to us through the poor he would say. Beggars were fed from his table, he ate their leavings, washed their feet, ministered to the wants of lepers, and daily fed over one hundred poor. He founded the House of the Felles-Dieu for reformed prostitutes, the Quinze-Vingt for 300 blind men, and hospitals at Pontoise, Vernon, and Compiégne. |
| ME47820. Silver denier tournois, Duplessy 193, Thomsen 2945, Roberts 2413, F, chipped, weight 0.863 g, maximum diameter 18.8 mm, die axis 45o, Tours mint, 1266 - 1270; obverse + LVDOVICVS REX, cross within inner beaded circle; reverse + TURONVS CIVIS, castle tournois; SOLD |
| France, Philip II, 1180 - 1223 A.D. |  | |
| ME47839. Silver denier, Duplessy 164, Lafaurie 181, Roberts 2561, Thomsen 2937, gF, weight 1.112 g, maximum diameter 19.5 mm, Paris mint, obverse PHILIPVS REX, FRA/NCO in two lines (2nd line retrograde) within inner circle; reverse + PARISII CIVIS, cross within inner circle; SOLD |
| Feudal France, Bishops of Maguelonne, 12th - 13th Century |  | An anonymous type struck by the Biships of Maguelonne, imitative of the Narbonne deniers of Raymond Berenger (1023 - 1067). |
| ME55656. Silver denier, Poey 3843, aF, dark toning, weight 1.039 g, maximum diameter 17.3 mm, Maguelonne mint, obverse RAIMVNDS (degenerated), dot in center of four annulets within inner border; reverse NARbONA (degenerated), pillar flanked by two pendants, forming cross, pellet in one angle, all within inner border; SOLD |
| France, Philip II, 1180 - 1223 A.D. |  | |
| ME47838. Silver denier, Duplessy 164, Lafaurie 181, Roberts 2561, Thomsen 2937, F, weight 0.828 g, maximum diameter 19.8 mm, Paris mint, obverse PHILIPVS REX, FRA/NCO in two lines (2nd line retrograde) within inner circle; reverse + PARISII CIVIS, cross within inner circle; SOLD |
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