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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4956969, member: 110504&quot;]To wallow in the obvious (never stoppped me before), those Spanish ones are cool.&nbsp; And (pssst) they&#039;ve traditionally been sleepers, along with contemporary Castilian ones.</p><p>Marquisate of Provence.&nbsp; Denier, Raymond VI (1194-1222) or VII (1222-1249).[ATTACH=full]1191574[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1191580[/ATTACH]</p><p>Obv.&nbsp; Crescent and sun.&nbsp; +DVX MARCHIO PV[VINCIE].</p><p>Rev.&nbsp; Cross of Toulouse.&nbsp; +R: COMES PALACI.</p><p>(Duplessy 1606A; a slight variant of Duplessy&#039;s variant.)</p><p>The counts of Toulouse held the marquisate /&#039;march&#039; of Provence.&nbsp; The terminology demonstrates the fluidity of the border between France and the German Empire (/former Kingdom of Burgundy).&nbsp; There was a marquisate of Provence on the French side, and a county on the Burgundian side.&nbsp; By the same token, a German county of Burgundy was across the border from the French duchy.</p><p>Similarly, the term &#039;dux&#039; hadn&#039;t fully coalesced into the formal title of &#039;duke;&#039; it could connote any polity that was on a frontier (hence the association with &#039;march&#039; and &#039;marquisate&#039;).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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