The obverse legend seems also tooled but maybe it's just to enhance what was already there (the horse and shield) rather than invent it.
I lean towards an incomplete entry in Duplessy's catalog at #214, which should have variations similar to #213. Completing the entry would...
Hi, I think that your gros tournois is similar to Duplessy 214, Ciani 206, Lafaurie 218. Gros a l'0 long instead of O rond (Duplessy 213). These...
Alphonse Jourdain was born in 1103 at Mont Pelerin, a castle in the soon-to-be County of Tripoli, where his father was crusading and founding...
Maybe a local variation from Serbia? See this one for similar weight and overall look: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1201892
DOC 779 is 'cross inside halo' but this is 777 'large patriarchal cross' Here's a real riddle wrapped inside a puzzle: [ATTACH]
Another EPWC-AMOR-ROMA mintmark on a later type from this series of types: [ATTACH]
I think it is very unlikely that Robert III actually minted himself. These deniers parisii are very likely of Robert II, minted during the 1190s...
The Hoard of Gisors was discovered in 1970 (Michel Amandry - Tresors Monetaires XXV). It appears to have been deposited after 1244 and comprises...
Another one that lovers of late Byzantine trachea might appreciate ID-ing: [ATTACH]
Greece and the southern Balkans were a hotbed for local variations of the denier tournois.
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Usually there is a lot of trouble trying to date French medieval coinage. If you are lucky, you can assign a coinage to a certain part of the...
I'm afraid that the condition makes it hard to even make up any lettering. I don't recognize the type and if it's a 17th century schilling that is...
I'm very curious why would anyone name Henry as a king in 1152 and how likely it is that the coinage of Aquitaine for him started in 1152 and...
Seigneurie de Nogent-le-Roi entered the possession of Hugo de Beauvais during the reign of Hugo Capet and was inherited by Roger at the death of...
The Antioch deniers are likely to have a rather high title silver in the alloy. But you don't see many 12th century deniers with this patina, nor...
Do the borders look normal for an Anglo-Saxon or a known variation of the Anglo-Saxon penny?
Considering the period: the aftermath of the Sixth Crusade, the involvement of Bohemond in the War of the Lombards and the rise of the Mamluk...
They are very off and unlikely for those who are familiar with the period, striking techniques, alloys used usw. But not everyone is familiar.
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