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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8277992, member: 110504&quot;][USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER], that&#039;s a fine example.</p><p>I have a couple, posted too recently to upload.&nbsp; But there are a couple of cool things about the issue.&nbsp; The monogram on the obverse is a free adaptation of the ERBERTVS monogram of Herbert I, count of Maine c. 1015-1035 (funly contemporaneous to Cnut).&nbsp; Another instance of how the early Capetian kings acknowledged the ongoing feudal realities on the ground, numismatically as well as otherwise.&nbsp; --Also immobilized forever; into the 13th century.&nbsp; Here&#039;s one example of an earlier immobilization, from later in the 11th century (Duplessy, <u>Feodales</u> 397).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461777[/ATTACH]</p><p>...As a mint, Etampes is cool for being the site of a castle, probably built by Louis VII, with a pioneering, &quot;transitional&quot; keep design, midway between keeps that were still rectangular and ones that were circular.&nbsp; The Wiki article links to some good pictures, including plans.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_d%27%C3%89tampes" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_d%27%C3%89tampes" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château_d&#039;Étampes</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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