A Group of Interesting Coins: Medieval Edition

Great write-up/ beautifull coins Curtis We had our first snow/ thus I will join the ranks of the "unemployed" Now, I will have time to do more fun stuff, snowmobiling/ coins

I have tons of Medieval stuff/ here are a few....
England/ House of Lancaster
AV Quarter Noble ND Annulet Issue/ Tower Mint
Henry VI of Lancaster 1422-61
Struck 1430-40
ex: Theo Law Coll.
Viennois/ Dauphine
AV Florin d'or ND/ Viennes Mint
Humbert II 1333-49
France/ Valois Kings
AV Ecu d'or ND / St. Quentin Mint
Charles VI "le Fol" 1380-1420
Struck Feb. 28.1388
ex: Jean Vinchon&Phidias
Milano/ Duchy
AV Ducato ND Milano Mint
Filippo Maria Visconti 1414-47
Struck 1425
ex: MDC/ Monaco
Anglo-Gallic
AV Sulat d'or ND Saint-Lo Mint "Lis" mm
Henry VI of Lancaster 1422-61
Struck 1422-30
ex: Prominent Belgian Coll./ The Bru Sale

 

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Thanks, @Curtisimo, for a terrific OP.
...With apologies for the fact that most of what I could contribute would be redundant.
Except, this set off some synapses.

@seth77, yep, I saw it. My favorite scene was near the end, after the variously more and less self-absorbed tourists pilgrims were finally in the church. The censor swinging from the door to the altar was enough to bring tears to the eyes of a lifelong, but no less emphatically irenic Protestant. Especially as a visual metaphor for what was happening on a spiritual level, regardless of the (thank you, temporary) congregants' divergent capacities to pick up on it. (Never mind, for one quick minute, what a church full of 21st, or 12th century pilgrims would have smelled like.) On dvd, from the chair I'm sitting in now, it was pretty compelling.
...With apologies for doing this in the wrong thread, I've been getting a lot of mileage from this, over the last year and change.

...Well, okay, here's one German denar of the Salian dynasty (11th century), with a deptiction of the cathedral of Speyer, before it was even completed in its eventual, gloriously Romanesque form. (...And then mostly refaced in the 19th century, as I saw on my one trip to Europe, age 11.) I like how it's Just (as in, jee...Yust) early enough for Konrad II and Heinrich III to still be quoting the Byzantine ikonography on the other side. (Right, vis-a-vis the schism of 1051.)

 

@+VGO.DVCKS : many of these 10 to 11th century German coins (and their Slavic imitations) come from the Baltic area -- I have a hunch yours is from Estonia -- which adds to what we already knew from P. Spufford's Money and its use in Medieval Europe the 'Feudal Deniers and Viking Dirhams' chapter.

 

Your posts are some of my favorites on this forum. Thanks

 

Yep, @seth77, you nailed it. Can't cite anything off the top of my head, but it's been emerging recently how central the eastern Baltic was to the Viking world. Makes immediate, intuitive geographic sense, being directly in between Scandinavia and greater Kievan Rus'. The majority of the Salian ones I've gotten from Estonia have peck marks. ...For numismatic references per se, what I have to complement Spofford is Graham-Campbell et al., The Silver Economy in the Viking Age (2007). Even more tangentially, I cited this in a post just within the last week or so, on late Anglo-Saxon coins found in Poland.
https://brittlebooks.library.illino...2012-12/nordca0001angsax/nordca0001angsax.pdf

 

Thanks John. Beautiful examples as always!

Thanks for the kind words @+VGO.DVCKS ! Nice coin addition as well.

Thank you Cachecoins. That is one of the nicest compliments I have received in a while.

 

Nice example !!! Here’s my coin from Speyer , not as good as yours

Heinrich III 1039-1056A.D.
Royal mint at the city of Speyer.
+SCA MARIA Half-length portrait of Mary with hands raised , in front of her the head of the Christ Child.
+SPIRA CIVITAS Church, in CH / ON
Dannenberg 838

 

Except, @VD76, that's a brilliant example. (Sorry for the delay; I was just putting together a new thread.) The detail that's there is compelling.

 

@seth77, I'm a little embarrassed to even cite this, but all I have on the subject (in English...) is Marika Magi, The Viking Eastern Baltic (Arc Humanitiees Press, Leeds, 2019). The author does a lot of mere reportage of Icelandic sagas (right, at a remove of a couple of centuries or more). But she also cites archaeological evidence. Her bibliography is illuminating; she's almost apologetic about the paucity of references in English, leading her to emphasize sources available online. But for an introduction (at 95 pages, with a few more of bibliography), it's substantial enough, relative to the total ignorance I began with, that I'm glad I bought it.
...Bears repeating; for the whole subject, regardless of the language involved, it's still very early days. Particularly given its profound significance to the study of the Viking Age as a whole.

 

You might want to look for Silver Economy in the Viking Age James Graham-Campbell and Gareth Williams, editors, Left Coast Press, Wilson Creek, CA 2007.