The story of the emporium at Quentovic is interesting and controversial in itself -- I really recommend S. Coupland's Trading Places: Quentovic...
In the field of 'Feudal France' a lot of the identifications that still stand today, mostly between collectors rather than numismatists, come from...
This small currency of the County of Tripoli was used towards the end of Christian rule on the mainland coast of the Eastern Levant. It is...
Here's a fun one, if you like this sort of thing. Robert II, ‘le Jeune,’ Comte de Dreux 1188-1218. AR denier parisis of Dreux. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Damietta, in the Eastern Nile Delta, was a high prize captured by the crusaders of the Fifth Crusade in November 1219 and was recognized as a...
After Margaret II d'Avesnes died in 1356, the County of Hainaut entered the sole domain of Wilhelm III, her eldest son from her marriage with...
On Monday, my favorite Parisian numismatic shop closed its public office until further notice because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Starting with 2017...
The coinage of Vienne is usually very common. The earlier coinage, the grand deniers are scarcer. But this grand denier, minted most likely...
Around the mid 1160s, the Holy Sepulchre complex, whose building began as early as the 1140s, during the reign of Queen Melisende of Jerusalem, is...
Following the entries that I have written this early summer about Vierzon (and its 12th century coinage, which can be read here) and Nogent-le-Roi...
Guy de Lusignan is generally ill-regarded historically, some of which is deserved, some just a result of things beyond his own control. But what...
Something interesting that I cannot remember seeing on medieval billon deniers outside of the Holy Land - a very nice iridescent golden glow:...
One of my main interests is in obscure lords of the feudal West, especially those who can be tied to either crusading and/or taking the pilgrimage...
This is an anonymous issue minted during the lordship of Balian Grenier as Lord of Sidon (1202/4-1241) Constable of Tyre (1229-1231) and Bailie of...
Jean de Dreux inherited the title of Earl of Richmond after his father awarded it to him together with his role as Peer of England in 1268, which...
When Raymond was brought to marry Constance of Antioch, the Principality was in a dire political situation, caught up between the Byzantine...
At the death of Thibaut IV de Blois, Count of Blois, Champagne and Brie in 1152, Sancerre became the inheritance for Thibaut's third son Etienne,...
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