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France (Feudal): County of La Marche. Hugh X de Lusignan (1208-1249)Boudeau 437, Poey d'Avant 2609-2613, probably 2612, Duplessey 960, Roberts __
AR denier, Montreuil-Bonnin or Bellac mint; .87 g., 19.47 mm. max, 0°
Obv: + VGO COMES, cross pattée
Rev: + MAR[C]HIE, crosslet surrounded by two crescents and two annulets, within inner border.
Hugh’s father, Hugh IX of Lusignan was betrothed to marry 12-year-old Isabel of Angoulême in 1200, when King John of England married her instead. This resulted in the entire de Lusignan family rebelling against the English king. Instead, Hugh’s father married Hugh’s mother, Agathe de Preuilly. Following King John's death in 1216, Queen Isabella returned to France, where she married Hugh on May 10, 1220.Stkp09/30/22 at 12:04Anaximander: Nice piece. Duplessy I #960A & Poey d'Avant I...
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France (feudal): Duchy of Burgundy; Hugues/Hugh III (1162-1192) and Hugues/Hugh IV (1218-1272)Boudeau 1211; Poey d’Avant 5677 var., plate XXXI No. 12; Roberts 4533-34 var.
AR denier; Dijon mint; .89 g., 17.75 mm. max., 270°
Obv: + VGO D[V]X BVRG:DIE (three vertical pellets between G and D), pellet above two billettes, annulet below.
Rev: + DIVIONENSIS (=Dijon) (first S retrograde), cross.Stkp08/04/21 at 01:02Kim B. N: There are just something about them french. :roll...
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France (feudal): Duchy of Burgundy; Hugues/Hugh III (1162-1192) and Hugues/Hugh IV (1218-1272)Boudeau 1211; Poey d’Avant 5677 var., plate XXXI No. 12; Roberts 4533-34 var.
AR denier; Dijon mint; .89 g., 17.75 mm. max., 270°
Obv: + VGO D[V]X BVRG:DIE (three vertical pellets between G and D), pellet above two billettes, annulet below.
Rev: + DIVIONENSIS (=Dijon) (first S retrograde), cross.Stkp07/31/21 at 12:12quadrans: Nice find...
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France (Royal). Philippe IV, le Bel (the Fair) (1285-1314)AR Gros Tournois à l’O rond (958‰ fineness). Struck 1285-1290. 3.81 g., 24.76 mm. max. (clipped), 0°
Ciani 206, LaFaurie 218, Duplessy 214, Dhénin 258, Roberts 2461
Obv.: + BNDICTV: SIT: NOmE: DNI: nRI: DEI: IhV. XPI with 3-pellet stops (= Benedictum Sit Nomen Domini Nostri Dei Ihesu Christus = Blessed in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ) around + PhILIPPVS REX around cross pattée.
Rev.: + TVRONVS CIVIS (= City of Tours) around châtel tournois, surrounded by floral border of twelve embedded lis.
Van Hengel (1997) Group 200 (PhILLIPPVS legend with no punctuation marks in PhILLIPVS REX and TVRONVS CIVITAS). Van Hengel initially hesitated over whether this group is imitative, i.e., the work of professional moneyers and struck by a minting authority with the right to mint coins, somewhere. He later (1999) concluded that the group is imitative. The variable letter characteristics of the coin, according to the Van Hengel system, are:
• The first three Ns in the obverse outer legend appear as Hs, which is a later development;
• The M in NOME is open, as per Tyler-Smith letter form 2 var., another late development;
• There is no single pellet stop before XPI;
• The R in PhILLIPVS is a variant letter form not depicted by Tyler-Smith;
• The T on the reverse is a non-specific variant letter form depicted but not numbered by Tyler-Smith;
• The Vs on the reverse are a variant letter form not depicted by Tyler-Smith;
• The N on the reverse is Tyler-Smith variant letter form 2 (retrograde).Stkp01/12/19 at 20:42quadrans: Interesting piece..
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France (Royal). Philippe IV, le Bel (the Fair) (1285-1314)AR Gros Tournois à l’O rond (958‰ fineness). Struck 1285-1290. 3.81 g., 24.76 mm. max. (clipped), 0°
Ciani 206, LaFaurie 218, Duplessy 214, Dhénin 258, Roberts 2461
Obv.: + BNDICTV: SIT: NOmE: DNI: nRI: DEI: IhV. XPI with 3-pellet stops (= Benedictum Sit Nomen Domini Nostri Dei Ihesu Christus = Blessed in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ) around + PhILIPPVS REX around cross pattée.
Rev.: + TVRONVS CIVIS (= City of Tours) around châtel tournois, surrounded by floral border of twelve embedded lis.
Van Hengel (1997) Group 200 (PhILLIPPVS legend with no punctuation marks in PhILLIPVS REX and TVRONVS CIVITAS). Van Hengel initially hesitated over whether this group is imitative, i.e., the work of professional moneyers and struck by a minting authority with the right to mint coins, somewhere. He later (1999) concluded that the group is imitative. The variable letter characteristics of the coin, according to the Van Hengel system, are:
• The first three Ns in the obverse outer legend appear as Hs, which is a later development;
• The M in NOME is open, as per Tyler-Smith letter form 2 var., another late development;
• There is no single pellet stop before XPI;
• The R in PhILLIPVS is a variant letter form not depicted by Tyler-Smith;
• The T on the reverse is a non-specific variant letter form depicted but not numbered by Tyler-Smith;
• The Vs on the reverse are a variant letter form not depicted by Tyler-Smith;
• The N on the reverse is Tyler-Smith variant letter form 2 (retrograde).Stkp01/11/19 at 07:31shanxi: very nice
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France (Feudal): Duchy of Brittany. John I, “the Red” (1237-1286)Roberts 4611 var., Poey d'Avant 356 var. (plate 11, no. 14), Boudeau 36-37 var. , Duplessy 73 var. (apparently no pellet on obverse after the X in the sources)
AR denier, Vannes mint [?], ca. 1250 [?], 19 mm.
Obv: + IOhANNES•DVX•, central cross.
Rev: + B-RIT-ANI-E, triangular shield of the house of Dreux in Brittany consisting of three spots and field of ermine.
John I (c. 1217/18–1286), known as John the Red due to the color of his beard, was the son of Duke Peter I, Duke of Brittany jure uxoris and Alix of Thouars, hereditary Duchess of Brittany. He was hereditary duke from 1221, upon his mother’s death, but his father ruled as regent until he reached adulthood. He experienced a number of conflicts with the Bishop of Nantes and the Breton clergy. In 1240, he issued an edict expelling Jews from the duchy and cancelling all debts to them. He joined Louis IX of France in the Eighth Crusade (1270), and survived the plague that killed the king. The duchy of Brittany experienced a century of peace, beginning with John I and ending with Duke John III's reign in 1341.Stkp05/11/14 at 15:01Skyler: Nice
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France (Feudal): Dukes of Aquitaine. William X, the “Saint” (1127-1137).Roberts, 4311, Boudeau 464, Poey d'Avant 2735
AR denier, Bordeaux mint, 18 mm.
Obv: + CLVILILMO [first L retrograde] (Guillaume), four crosslets forming a cross.
Rev: + BVRDECIILA (Bordeaux, Burdigalae in Latin), cross pattée.
William X (1099–1137), was Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, and Count of Poitou (as William VIII). He was the son of Duke William IX by his second wife, Philippa of Toulouse. He was born in Toulouse when his father was briefly the Count. Shortly after his birth his father went on Crusade, and he was raised in Poitiers by his mother. His father later abandoned her, and took Dangerose, the wife of one of his vassals, as mistress. This caused strain between father and son, until William married Aenor de Châtellerault, daughter of Dangerose, in 1121. They had three children, one of whom was Eleanor of Aquitaine, his heiress.
William was a lover of the arts and a warrior. He became involved in conflicts with Normandy and France. Inside his borders, he faced an alliance of the Lusignans and the Parthenays against him, an issue he resolved by the total destruction of his enemies. William X initially supported antipope Anacletus II in the papal schism of 1130, against the will of his own bishops. In 1134 Saint Bernard of Clairvaux convinced William to drop his support of Anacletus and to embrace Pope Innocent II.
In 1137 William joined the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, but died of suspected food poisoning during the trip. He left the dukedom and the care of his 15-year-old daughter to King Louis VI of France. Louis VI accepted this guardianship and married Eleanor to his son, Louis VII.Stkp01/20/14 at 05:08Skyler: Great example
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France (Feudal): Dombes (Principality of Dombes). Gaston d’Orléans, prince usufructuary (1627-1650)Poey d’Avant 5207 var., Divo Dombes 210 var., CGKL 756, Boudeau 1088
AE denier tournois, dated 1649. 17 mm. Trévoux mint.
Obv: GAST • PATR • R • VSFR • PR • DOM • A •, bust facing right, in a circle.
Rev: + DENIER • TOVRNOIS • 1649, three lilies under a lambel.
Dombes became a sovereign principality in 1402 (shortly after Louis II, Duke of Bourbon acquired both the northern and southern parts of the area and consolidated them), and continued as such until 1762, when it was surrendered to the crown.
Gaston (1608-1660), the third son of Henri IV and Mary de Médicis, became Duke of Orléans upon the death of his brother in 1611. In 1627 he married the daughter of Duke Henri of Bourbon-Montpensier. She died in 1627 giving birth to their daughter, Ann Mary Louise d’Orléans (1627-1693), and Gaston was usufructuary for the girl until 1650.
Stkp01/11/09 at 05:02Potator II: Gee !! A coin from Dombes in another collection th...
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