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Message:: [QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4804285, member: 110504"]Okay, this was the last grail coin to get here.[ATTACH=full]1166748[/ATTACH]Norman Italy.  Roger I, Count of Sicily, AE follaro, Messina or Mileto (in Calabria), c. 1098-1101.Obv.  Roger on horseback, with Norman, 'kite-shaped' shield; holding a lance, its pennant trailing into the right field.(From 12 o'clock: ) ROO[/'G'] ...E... RIVS ...COME... S.Rev.  The Madonna, seated, holding the infant Jesus.(From 1 o'clock: ) +... MARIA ... MATER DNI.(Andrea /Contreras, Norman Coins of the Kingdom of Sicily 131 (pp.130-131), notably citing the operant volume of Grierson, et al., MEC.  Cf. pp. 99-103 for a summary of the reign, along with Loud, The Age of Robert Guiscard, esp. 124-5.  For the the coin, there's also Kluge, Numismatik des Mittelalters, pl. 822.)Was circling for examples of this online for a few years.  This one had the right convergence of condition and price.  In hand, it's better than the pictures, both for the motifs (especially the obverse, resonantly evoking the Bayeux Tapestry) and the legends.[/QUOTE]