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Message:: [QUOTE="seth77, post: 3831941, member: 56653"]And here is what I wrote in reply to Mat regarding this coin: This is very likely an immobilized type, which started with Hugo IX de Lusignan at Bellac after 1200 to around 1218 (under the direct rule of Hugo IX, dit "Le Brun" 1199/1203-1208/1219) or after 1218 to around 1250, under the short bailliage of his son, Hugo X, who became Count of La Marche in his own right in 1219, at the news of the death of Hugo "Le Brun" at the siege of Damietta in the Fifth Crusade. There are probably two phases of this type: the early phase of the minting at Bellac(?) during Hugo IX's lifetime (to 1219) and the later phase minted at Bellac and Montreuil-Bonnin to around the death of Hugo X in 1249. The distinction is mainly due to the overall style and mostly weight. The early phase is at cca. 1g while the later phase stands at cca. 0.75g poids theorique. The availability of these coins suggests that a large number of them were minted either on two separate occasions or on multiple occasions during the rule of father and son between cca. 1200 and 1249/50. Hugo X died like his father, during the siege of Damietta in June 1249. The coinage was likely continued to around 1250.[/QUOTE]