Gonna spend it at the market today buying vegetables and wine, basically.
Always happy to see medieval coins here.
It is a continuation of an earlier issue, which in the case of Melle lasted for around 200 years. Your coin is one of the early ones. The point...
This heavy siliqua series is rather rare and dates around 342. The short mintmark and the headdress on the obverse suggest a date prior to 343,...
Your last coin seems to be this one: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3342572 I have seen it being offered before that in 2011. It is...
Just read it last night. Great stuff.
Another similar example: [ATTACH]
Hi, By the 12th century the Kingdom of Arles was pretty much just a symbolic artefact of the past, similar to the Kingdom of Burgundy. The County...
With Amadeus III, the Savoy family was recognized de jure by the Holy Roman Emperor, Heinrich V at that time, as hereditary counts of the whole...
Another Bohemond "le Borgne" AE pougeoise from Tripoli, which just sold on ebay for 120$: [ATTACH]
It's a nice coin. I've written a post about this type here.
Glad you enjoyed it. It's a very condensed and sintetic presentation of a portion of the numismatic history of the County of Tripoli. I also tried...
In the 1190s, after Bohemond "le Borgne" of Antioch got instated as Count of Tripoli, the quality of the coinage dropped -- as it happened in the...
Raymond III is one of the most important figures in the Crusader States. He was Count of Tripoli from 1152 to his death in 1187, served twice as...
This is the denier to accompany the obole tournois. At about 18mm and 0.80-0.90g, the coinage of the 1250s in Toulouse was a faithful copy of the...
Years ago, after I'd seen a few of these Poemenius types, varying widely between about 28mm to 21mm in flan and some 26/27 to 22mm in die size, I...
If you understand a bit of any of the important European languages you can usually handle a catalog to reference your coins. But if you want to...
Glad you enjoyed it!
The sons of Louis VIII "le Lion" of France managed between cca. early 1240s and 1259 to successfully finish what Philippe II Augustus had started...
I think it was in the 80s when it was still hip to assign local (and often nationalist) tones to everything, from pottery to coins. My favorite...
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