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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FitzNigel, post: 3974360, member: 74712&quot;]Since I finally got mine up, here is my sole “honorable mention”</p><p><br /></p><p>Honorable Mention. Baldwin IX Maille</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1045958[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">Low Countries - Flanders</font></p><p><font size="3">Baldwin IX, r. 1194-1205</font></p><p><font size="3">Ghent mint, AR Mailles, 11.3 mm x 0.4 grams</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv.: +G+A+N+T Head left with helmet in circle of pellets, one lis in the helmet</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev.: B . COMES Ornamented cross with one pellet in each angle</font></p><p><font size="3">Ref.: de Wit 1245-6</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Under normal circumstances, this would make it in my top 10, but this coin had an irregular journey.&nbsp; I technically bought it in 2018, and put it up for auction in AMCC2.&nbsp; As the auction got closer, I started to regret the decision.&nbsp; I decided not to pull it however, since I made the commitment to include it.&nbsp; I was a bit surprised, but then also relieved, that the coin didn’t sell, and [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER]&nbsp; kindly returned it to me.&nbsp; The history behind the issuing authority I find to be really interesting, and so I will include the info I wrote for AMCC2 here:</p><p><br /></p><p>The mailles, or petite deniers of the low countries are a unique response to the debasing of the coinage occurring within France.&nbsp; Instead of debasing the silver, the issuers of the Low Countries opted to keep the same purity of silver, but reduce the size of the coin, which kept them in line with the value of French coins during the same time period.&nbsp; Baldwin IX was at the center of medieval politics in the late 12th century.&nbsp; His wife was Marie de Champagne, the grand-daughter of French King Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine.&nbsp; Marie’s brother, Henry II of Champagne, was king of Jerusalem, and her uncles were Richard I of England and Phillip Augustus of France; both critical leaders in the third crusade.&nbsp; After the loss of Jerusalem to Saladin and the failure of the Third Crusade, Baldwin’s obligations through his marriage would see him join the disastrous Fourth Crusade, and their subsequent attack on Constantinople.&nbsp; Baldwin was chosen to become the first Latin Emperor of Constantinople, and was crowned Emperor Baldwin I (Marie died in transport before she could join her husband).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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