As an illegitimate son of Jean II, Jacques was skipped as a potential inheritor of the Kingdom of Cyprus in 1458, in favor of Charlotte, Jean's...
Don't be saddened, it's a very interesting and also rare coin. Costanzo Sforza was Signore de Pesaro between 1473 and 1483 and his coins are...
The soldino seems likely one minted for Costanzo Sforza I, as Signore de Pesaro. He was followed by his son Giovanni both as condottiero and as...
Conventionally the TVRONVS CIVIS tournois were minted from 1245 to cca. 1270. The different design devices - like annulets, dots, apostrophes, etc...
It is a very interesting specimen. The S of LVDOVICVS is vertical but both S's on the reverse legend are couchee. Something similar can be seen...
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The good alloy, the presumed long circulation (up to 1245-1250, that's a very long time), the propensity of the people to hoard them and the...
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A question then: between LVDOVICVS and REX and TVRONVS and CIVIS is there a device on the legends or the S is horizontal?
Could you provide less blurred images please? Thank you for your interest!
None of the coins are mine, but thank you! Also for your addition. Yours looks also worn and might have been struck with worn dies. What can...
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Hello everyone, I'm preparing an article about a specific type of denier tournois assigned traditionally to Louis IX of France, so I'd like to...
Other very interesting bust variations one can find on the billon/bronze antoniniani of Claudius II Gothicus: [ATTACH] 1. a heroic bust from...
I don't think it is a variation of RIC 180 but rather RIC 180. The variation which mr. Lech Stepniewski also notes in Not In Ric is an engraving...
I forgot to insert the map of the Angevin Empire in 1199 and now I cannot edit the post to add it, so here it is: [ATTACH]
The denier tournois became, quickly after the confiscation of Touranie in 1205, the regular coinage of the kingdom alongside the denier parisis....
This small entry is supposed to make the argument that sometimes even the most unassuming coins with the most inane and lowbrow designs can be...
One of the most interesting bust types used on late roman coins was the one described as: emperor, cuirassed or draped and cuirassed, holds in his...
To revive this thread, here are a couple of other quattrini minted at Aquila for the previous Angevin monarchs of Naples: One for Louis d'Anjou,...
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