..Ooh these dang ole' obsessive fixations..you know what im talkin' 'bout....if we don't have a holy grail to lQQk for, we'll find one....anyway, i got some more Louies in and got another one ordered 9_9 here's ein of two coins that came in the last day or so..now i'm kinda unfamiliar with these lots, so correct me if i'm mistaken on id..the coin i just bought of the 6th Louie was listed as the 7th...after a quick, impulsive close i got looking at the info and noticed the years were not right for the coin..the seller said the years were correct but it was his fathers coin(vi) not his.. fortunately for all concerned, i needed that one also...^^..i'll post XII in Medieval Monday, gods willing POST YER COINS N COMMENTS PEEPS~ Louis XI "The Prudent"(1461-1483) silver/billon(?) Blanc Au Soleil. Obverse: three lilies placed 2 & 1 in trilobe topped by sun within 2 superimposed ringlets, legend: LVDOVICVS FRANCOR REX(Louie, King of the Franks) Reverse: Cross in a double quatrefoil, Legend: SIT. mOnE Dnl BEnEDICTV(Blessed be the name of the Lord) 26mm, 2.6gms(has been clipped)
Nice! That silver looks pretty shiny. Making me thinks it's not billon. Here's a Louie from same time later than yours:
Cool! An important dude, Louis XI ended the hundred years' war with England. Apparently he was also nicknamed "the universal spider" for all the webs he wove. This Louis VII is ex @Orfew:
Interesting ! Nothing from Louis XI to show here but something feudal/provincial that is contemporary to your coin, and also a "blanc" Jean II de Bourbon (1456-1488), Blanc Atelier de Trévoux + IhES : DVS : BORBOhI : TREVORCI : DhS Ecu de Bourbon accosté de trois flammes dans un double trilobe + DISPERSIT : DEDIT : PAVPERIBVS * O * Croix pattée cantonnée de deux lis et deux flammes, dans un double quadrilobe 2.37 gr Ref : Divo Dombes # 3v, PA - Q
I'm mostly done with kings of France after Philippe III (1270-85), but I like the early Capetians. Since the reigns were numbered from the Carolingians, why not start there? Louis I, 814-840, 'temple' denier: Louis IV, 936-954, denier of Langres, or an early immobilization (in both cases, you can see most of 'HLVDOVICVS,' effectively a compromise between the lingering Germanic orthography and the medieval Latin): Louis VI, 1108-1137, two varieties from Etampes. On the first one, from 6 o'clock, the 'STAMPIS CASTELLVM' is relatively clear. --Yes, the obverse motif is based on the longstanding feudal issue of Le Mans, with the initial 'E' for the original 'ERBERTVS' monogram: ...And here's my Bourges denier of Louis VII: Fast-forward, past the deniers parisis and tournois (most of which I don't have pics of anyway), this is my gros tournois of Louis IX, from the end of his reign, c. 1266-1270. Possibly, in part, celebrating the completion of La Sainte-Chapelle. --Oops, out of uploads! ...You don't get carried away on purpose....
