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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8074529, member: 128351&quot;]Very interesting ! </p><p><br /></p><p>The French numismatist Jean Babelon proposed a hypothesis about the Carolingian temple with the legend XPISTIANA RELIGIO. Could it be an ideal image of Solomon&#039;s Temple? (Jean BABELON, « Le temple ou le châtel », <i>BSFN</i>, 1968, n° 7-8, p. 309-313)</p><p><br /></p><p>If you can read French, there is this blog page about the so-called &quot;<i>chatel tournois</i>&quot;. </p><p><a href="http://numismatique-medievale.blogspot.com/2007/01/faut-il-rebaptiser-le-chtel-tournois.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatique-medievale.blogspot.com/2007/01/faut-il-rebaptiser-le-chtel-tournois.html" rel="nofollow">http://numismatique-medievale.blogspot.com/2007/01/faut-il-rebaptiser-le-chtel-tournois.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The main point is that in the beginning the <i>chatel tournois</i> always came with the legend SCS MARTINVS, the mint place being on the other side of the coin. Other contemporary coins with the name of a saint depicted his relics (usually his &quot;<i>chef</i>&quot;, that is his head). Thus the <i>chatel tournois</i> could very well point to the relics of Saint Martin, in the same spirit, and the <i>chatel </i>would not be a castle (of couse !), not even a building, but the reliquary in which pilgrims could see Martin&#039;s relics. </p><p><br /></p><p>I found an example of a 13th c. reliquary (Lille Museum), I must admit the <i>chatel tournois</i> looks more like this than like a temple or a cathedral... </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1401376[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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