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<p>[QUOTE="seth77, post: 2984690, member: 56653"]The <i>denier tournois</i> is a certain type of coinage and although it is generally associated with Tours, 1. not all coins struck at Tours were <i>deniers tournois</i> (the temple deniers or monogram deniers minted for Charles le Chauve or the "bust of Saint Martin" deniers minted in the 10th and 11th century for instance were not <i>deniers tournois</i>, although minted at Tours and Tours-Chinon) and 2. not all <i>deniers tournois</i> were minted at Tours. The specimen presented in this post was minted at Glarentza in Greece for instance. Many others were minted at Thebes, Arta, Ainos, Chios, Naupaktas, Sulmona, Campobasso, Limosano et al, so well outside France. In the French realms, this denomination was struck besides Tours at Montreuil-Bonnin, Pont-de-Sorgue, Poitiers, Riom, Rennes, Chateaudun et al. (not an exhaustive list, not to mention the HRE mints) for a wide range of barons and not just the Kings of France.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the same way that the <i>denier parisis</i> was not just minted in Paris and only for the French kings, the tournois was not only minted in Tours, but was rather a standardized denomination minted at many multiple mints and for multiple lords. As in the case of the <i>parisis</i>, the <i>tournois</i> -- wherever it was minted up until the 15th century (outside of France) -- was recognized by the same design: the chateau tournois (which seems to have originated in this known shape from a today rare coinage of Foulques V as Count of Anjou (1109-1129)).</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope this short explanation clears things a bit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="seth77, post: 2984690, member: 56653"]The [I]denier tournois[/I] is a certain type of coinage and although it is generally associated with Tours, 1. not all coins struck at Tours were [I]deniers tournois[/I] (the temple deniers or monogram deniers minted for Charles le Chauve or the "bust of Saint Martin" deniers minted in the 10th and 11th century for instance were not [I]deniers tournois[/I], although minted at Tours and Tours-Chinon) and 2. not all [I]deniers tournois[/I] were minted at Tours. The specimen presented in this post was minted at Glarentza in Greece for instance. Many others were minted at Thebes, Arta, Ainos, Chios, Naupaktas, Sulmona, Campobasso, Limosano et al, so well outside France. In the French realms, this denomination was struck besides Tours at Montreuil-Bonnin, Pont-de-Sorgue, Poitiers, Riom, Rennes, Chateaudun et al. (not an exhaustive list, not to mention the HRE mints) for a wide range of barons and not just the Kings of France. In the same way that the [I]denier parisis[/I] was not just minted in Paris and only for the French kings, the tournois was not only minted in Tours, but was rather a standardized denomination minted at many multiple mints and for multiple lords. As in the case of the [I]parisis[/I], the [I]tournois[/I] -- wherever it was minted up until the 15th century (outside of France) -- was recognized by the same design: the chateau tournois (which seems to have originated in this known shape from a today rare coinage of Foulques V as Count of Anjou (1109-1129)). I hope this short explanation clears things a bit.[/QUOTE]
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