Great detective work, guys. It's a dubbele mijt from the 1350s minted for Wilhelm von Bayern as Count of Hainaut. Pretty scarce and historically...
And the denomination is...?
Excellent. Now city and denomination is all that's left to add :bookworm:
Diameter and weight would help to better id this one. If it fits the 16-18mm range and is around 2-2.5g it's most likely RIC Lugdunum 96 (95 is...
You nailed him. Now all there's left is figuring out which one of the realms he ruled, the city and the denomination :cat:
You are actually closer than you think, at least to identifying the ruler. After that, you'll have to identify to which of his possessions the...
All of them were struck in billon of different titles. The earlier ones from the 12th century - the Richard and Hugo II of Rodez are probably...
It's not a ruling dynasty anymore, but one still in existence, whose head today is titular King of a state in the former HRE (a state that today...
It's not a Hohenzollern either. I'll give it another day or so, maybe it would gather attention from more users with interest in medieval...
I especially like the Jean d'Avesnes sterling.
It's not Carolingian nor Robertine, in fact it's much later and it was minted in a realm associated usually with the Holy Roman Empire rather than...
Yes, now we have 3 of the coins pinned. They are not the focus point here though. The interest is about rarity and historical context and there...
No, they are all coins minted in Western Europe.
Not really. The Richard Plantagenet denier of Aquitaine is not particularly rare.
No. They were not used by the colonists of Roanoke either :blackalien:
This small and unassuming lot belongs to a French collection and was offered recently on Ebay. Anyone care to guess why is this an interesting...
Rather pricey but exceptional!
Here's a starting point: they seem to be Latin issues. The convex side makes taking good images rather hard, so it's hard to see much in the...
I have also written a very short history of the Latin Empire's inflation problems and of the evolution of the Latin trachea between 1204 and 1261,...
The OP trachea are most likely from the Latin Empire, unfortunately the details are too few to warrant a more detailed identification. An...
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