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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5570215, member: 110504&quot;][USER=74712]@FitzNigel[/USER], thanks for the link to your terrific writeup.&nbsp; Some coin you got there!</p><p>...You talked me into dredging up my immobilization of Charles the Bald of Bayeux. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1241467[/ATTACH]</p><p>It eventually involved not one, but three coups.&nbsp; First, the French dealer Remi Thieux (&quot;rtnumis&quot; on ebay and Delcampe) sold me his copy of Dumas, Le Trésor de Fécamp, at his cost.&nbsp; (Better believe I made him inscribe it!)&nbsp; Then, I found this example on French ebay, attributed to Charles, as usual.&nbsp; But it&#039;s a die match of Fécamp 6047.&nbsp; These are described as 10th-century immobilizatons.&nbsp; Moesgaard discusses the issue, along with [USER=74712]@FitzNigel[/USER]&#039;s, in an article in Graham-Campbell, ed., The Silver Economy in the Viking Age (2007; see esp. 102-111).</p><p>The ones of Bayeux might be contemporaneous to Richard I&#039;s issues in his own name, rather than earlier (looks like a better case for that with the temple immobilization), but they&#039;re kinda cool anyway.</p><p>On to Coup #3.&nbsp; Had to get an example of Charle&#039;s prototype.&nbsp; Here with the unblundered (but still very medieval Latin, and somewhat fraught) mint signature.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1241472[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1241473[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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