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<p>[QUOTE="John Scholefield, post: 6648799, member: 116562"]I'll concur with John Conduitt. Your coin, though a pleasant looking coin was quite difficult to read. Yours is probably quite a late coin in the series say (1150-1180).</p><p>The type was taken over by Philippe Auguste (1180- 1223) who added his name to the legend, and really flowered and became a National currency under St Louis IX (1226-1270). It was extensively immitated by other currency issuers in France (different legends) but Louis forbade this around 1265. Louis did allow the type to be produced in Frankish Greece (Achaia & Athens) and it was immitated in Southern Italy.</p><p>I append a page from Poey d'Avant (1864) illustrating the development of the type.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1268590[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Scholefield, post: 6648799, member: 116562"]I'll concur with John Conduitt. Your coin, though a pleasant looking coin was quite difficult to read. Yours is probably quite a late coin in the series say (1150-1180). The type was taken over by Philippe Auguste (1180- 1223) who added his name to the legend, and really flowered and became a National currency under St Louis IX (1226-1270). It was extensively immitated by other currency issuers in France (different legends) but Louis forbade this around 1265. Louis did allow the type to be produced in Frankish Greece (Achaia & Athens) and it was immitated in Southern Italy. I append a page from Poey d'Avant (1864) illustrating the development of the type. [ATTACH=full]1268590[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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