Medieval Monday!

i think so far as we know, all Aquitainian coins were minted in Bordeaux. I think there’s a suspicion there might be other mints but I don’t think there is any way to tell

 

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Here are a couple I won from Naumann's last auction. I don't do a lot with Byzantine other than anonymous folles, and Comnenan trachys and fractions. But I'm a pushover for Alexius I, and anything in my range with relatively complete legends. These are tetarterons of Alexius and John II Comnenus. I like how the one of Alexius echoes the Christ Pantokrator motif of the folles of Constantine IX, from as little s a generation before, in the mid-nnth century.

 

A PAXS penny of Sudbury by the moneyer Aelfric with the characteristic large R in the moneyer's name. Sudbury was a small mint in East Anglia and a location which is routinely given incorrectly for coins of Southwark due to the latter's mint reading that is usually SUDB, where the D has a thorn.

 

With this coin I finally complete all the Antiochian types of Crusader coins …..

 

--Really/ No, Really? ...Right, types versus variants (especially with the deniers, when 'variants' --cf. Metcalf-- are sometimes all you get to distinguish reigns). But Still....
Anyway, that's Solid.

 

LOL Of course, I didn't mean all the countless variations.…..

 

Sorry, wasn't concentrating and can't edit. The moneyer is Wulfric, not Aelfric

 

Awesome coin.. I love Genghis coins..

 

Thank you. Fun to have!

 

I am waiting to receive my final Genghis gold piece. One with his name to complete a set of Billon, Silver and Gold Genghis coins..

 

Best movie depiction/ Omar Sharif 1965

 

Almohades/ Spain+N. Africa
AV Dobla ND/ NM
Muhammad ben Yaqub 1184-99

 

Monday again...
Tulunids/ Egypt/ Syria
AV Dinar AH 291 Misr Mint/ citing Abbasid Caliph al-Muktafi
Harun ibn Khumarawayh 896-904
He was the fourth Tulunid Caliph, he left the affairs of state to his Vizier, and lived like a Pasha. Meanwhile, all this led to unrest amongst the Army. Taking advantage, the Abbasid Caliph invaded Syria. Tulunid forces there deserted/ allowing Abbasid armies to enter Egypt. This led to a mutiny and Harun was killed.

 

Second issue early Edward I Irish farthing, Dublin mint.

 

Group lot I just bought; Kingdom of Jerusalem, Amalric /Amaury I, 1163-1174 (with Church of the Holy Sepulchre); Baldwin III, 1143-1163 (with Tower of David), two examples.


I recently fell into a book on the architectural history of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which put due emphasis on the major rebuilding during the reign of Amaury. @seth77 has noted this in some detail, but Amaury's shift from his older brother's Tower of David motif was clearly in commemoration of the fact. At that point I wanted a better example than I have, especially for the rendering of the Church. ...As a group lot, the price was right. The better Baldwin III might be the best one I have at this point.

 

Great lot, very representative with a "rough style" and a "smooth style" denier for Baldwin III, besides the obvious star the AMALRICVS denier.

 

Many thanks, @seth77. Without reading any (that's, Any) of the prefatory matter in my 1994 ed. of Malloy, is there more current research on the chronology of the two main styles?

 

I'm not sure there is something accurate enough to give us the chronology we want, the common wisdom is still somewhere between the "rough style" series being the earlier Baldwin III coinage in the 1140s and the two styles indicate two different mints operating under Baldwin.

 

I missed last night but here is a treasure I picked up late last year. I bought this on a whim but I just loved the look of this little silver.



Malta, Order of the Knights of St John. Emanuel de Rohan AR Tari. 1777. EMANUEL DE ROHAN M (both N's inverted), crowned arms / ✠ DI HOSPI ET S SEP HIER (date), T 1 between crosses, within wreath. Rastelli 64; KM 307.2. 0.93g, 18mm, 6h.

 

Nice! I have also one from this Grand master....