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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4991277, member: 110504&quot;]Thanks for your contribution, [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER].&nbsp; Along with Boudeau and Poey, your example corresponds to Duplessy 481.&nbsp; He dates the issue to &#039;before 1160-1180,&#039; corresponding to Hugues III, fl. 1119-c.1180; viscount by c. 1147.&nbsp; (Cf. Cawley, <u>Medieval Lands</u> website; Livingstone, esp. table, p. 238.&nbsp; Cawley numbers his Hugueses and Geoffroys by order of birth among all descendants of known record, rather than by succession.)</p><p>I <i>almost</i> landed this example of the same issue from a dealer on French ebay.&nbsp; (He held it ...just not long enough.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1198898[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1198900[/ATTACH]</p><p>For what&#039;s in the center of the motif, forming the &#039;eye,&#039; Duplessy only lists an annulet.&nbsp; In your instance and the other one, that little nuance falls victim to the endemically weak center strikes.&nbsp; In the one that got away, with a slll<i>lightly</i> weaker strike of the reverse, all you still get is a &#039;besant.&#039;</p><p>Continuing the wedge motif, this is an obole from the previous issue, corresponding to Geoffroy III, fl. 1110-c. 1180/90.&nbsp; (From Duplessy, numerous later issues correspond to the one who died at the siege of Acre in 1191.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1198889[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1198890[/ATTACH]</p><p>Obv.&nbsp; Bléso-chartrain profile.&nbsp; Same variation, but with three besants in the field, the middle one composing the &#039;eye.&#039;&nbsp; ...Right, the profile faces left.&nbsp; (...<i>Got</i> all that?&nbsp; Not sure <i>I</i> did, the first time....)</p><p>Rev.&nbsp; +DVTCS:STICTI-I-I-.&nbsp; (Duplessy 479 (obole), with the 7th legend variant of deniers of the same type, as in 477A).</p><p>...Speaking of the number of things you get to upload in one post, here&#039;s the best I could find online for a map, from a 1911 edition of Shepherd&#039;s Historical Atlas.&nbsp; ...That&#039;s where you get the couple of lines of blank space toward the beginning of the initial post.&nbsp; ...Fell victim to One More Coin.</p><p>...Except, Dang, Sorry for the scale.&nbsp; Did what I knew how to to tweak that; multiple programs were conspicuous by their lack of cooperation.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1198894[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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