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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4273983, member: 85693&quot;]A very interesting post.&nbsp; This is an area of numismatics and history about which I am woefully ignorant.&nbsp; But history for me tends to &quot;come alive&quot; when there are some actual coins attached to them and this kind of post helps shed a little light. </p><p><br /></p><p>A while back I got an itty-bitty coin of this era in a lot - I&#039;ll share it with my guesstimate attribution:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1087861[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>France - Obol Tournois</b></p><p><b>King Philip IV the Fair</b></p><p><b>(c. 1290-1295 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Tours Mint</b></p><p>+ PhILIPPVS R(V)X, cross pattée / TVRONVS CIVIS, Châtel Tournois surmounted</p><p>by a cross.</p><p>Duplessy 226 - C.227 - L.231</p><p>(0.40 grams / 15 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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