I'm sorry but I can't make anything of these pictures. What caught my attention yesterday was the color and the surface: the smooth surface on the...
Hello @Viacheslav, The first coin from the group shown in your OP is - if authentic - a very rare and interesting piece. It should read on the...
The countermark on the Serbian silver is of the Despotate of Karvuna, most likely applied in the 1380s to coins that circulated in that area. so...
Good luck and may you show us many interesting specimens :)
Last night I eventually succumbed to sleep, but here is another late medieval lady: Maria d'Aragon, as Queen of Sicily: [ATTACH]
Thank you, but it's not my collection, I could never afford it. I'm just a numismatist with an interest in Medieval Europe. The pics I attached...
Also part VI: Florent d'Avesnes died in 1297 at the siege of Chateau Saint Georges in Arcadia and left his wife Isabelle de Villehardouin to rule...
Also part V: Henry VI von Hohenstaufen and Constance di Altavilla (d'Hauteville) minted together as Emperor and Empress of the HRE between 1195...
Also part IV: Around the 1270-1280s Jeanne de Chatillon minted deniers as Countess of Chartres during her joint rule with her father Jean and...
Also part III: Maude de Bourbon ruled as Maude II, Countess of Nevers between 1257 and her death in 1262 and minted deniers under her name: [ATTACH]
Also part II: Anna of Savoy ruled as Empress regent for her son Iohannes V between 1341 and 1347 and minted hyperpyra, basilika, stamena/assaria...
There is also a very rare issue of Sibylla and her Haute Cour under Balian d'Ibelin and Latin Patriarch Heraclius of Jerusalem between July and...
Bonus points for the provenance.
In an interesting twist of fate - Alexius Branas was killed in a confruntation with the Imperial forces lead by Conrad de Montferrat in 1187 - his...
They are quite available and what is interesting is that they are more common than the French prototypes. You are thus more likely to find a very...
I've written two articles about the denier tournois and its popularity in both Frankish Greece and the Italian States. If interested, they can be...
I'm not an active collector anymore, I'm just a numismatist with an interest in late antiquity and western feudalism.
There is also the obole tournois, which is a small billon denomination which circulated alongside the denier tournois and later on alongside the...
Very nice coins, both of them. If anyone is interested in finding out more about the gros tournois denomination and/or about the 13-15th century...
When I first started using the RIC V site my rule of thumb was to select many possibilities as to cover as much ground as possible just in case...
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