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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6270720, member: 110504&quot;]This is one of the finer-style profile portraits from High Medieval Europe.&nbsp; ...Hope that, as such, it manages to slide home, even if in a bigger cloud of dust than usual.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1248283[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1248285[/ATTACH]</p><p>County of Provence.&nbsp; Denier /&#039;royal coronat,&#039; Marseilles, c. 1186-c. 1243.</p><p>&#039;+REX .ARA.GONE;&#039; &#039;PO / VI /NC / IA.&#039;</p><p>Crusafont v. IV, 174 (attr. Jaume I of Aragon); Duplessy 1611 (Anonymous).&nbsp; Cf. Boudeau 807, attributing it to Alfonso II &#039;of Aragon&#039;, Count of Provence 1196-1209, immobilized up to the new coinage of Count Raymond Berenger V, from 1243.&nbsp; (Conspicuously citing hoard evidence, albeit as of the early 20th century.)&nbsp; Crusafont, meanwhile, distinguishes this issue from earlier ones, which he dates to Pere I, King of Aragon 1196-1213, on the basis of substantive stylistic, ...ahem, improvement.</p><p>...The latter attribution is problematic, merely because Alfonso II of Provence was Pere I of Aragon&#039;s brother (and father of Raymond Berenger V), and the two ruled simultaneously, respectively in the County of Provence and the Kingdom of Aragon.&nbsp; Intuitively, the longer interval of immobilization, advocated by Boudeau and Duplessy, seems to make more <i>prima facie</i> sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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