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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 7648533, member: 56653&quot;]There was a time when you could see these everywhere from CGB to French ebay and the many shops and auction houses from France, but now for some reason not so much. I wonder why.</p><p><br /></p><p>County of Rodez in Occitania, Hugo II de Millau, ca. 1160-1180 or ca. 1200, ex French private collection:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1315072[/ATTACH] </p><p>The County of Rodez was a fief of the County of Toulouse and Hugues de Rodez owed homage to the Counts of Toulouse for his title. The denier of Rodez was a moneta octena (8/12 silver alloy) during this period (G. Depeyrot - Le tresor de Toulouse et le numeraire feodal aux XII et XIIIe siecle; In: Annales du Midi : revue archéologique, historique et philologique de la France méridionale, Tome 94, N°157, 1982. pp. 125-149, p. 133).</p><p><br /></p><p>From the 1130s to possibly 1274 (or at the very least ca. 1215, if the mint did not cease to coin around 1208/10 to ca. 1220 as Depeyrot hypothesizes p. 135) the coinage of Rodez consisted of an immobilized type in the name of Hugo. With a lower diameter and weight, the S couche and the long Gs and Cs, this specimen is likely minted under Hugo II perhaps up to 1200, being what would be called in 1283 moneta antiqua, to be separated from the later coinage or moneta nova, that was probably in use since 1274(?) cf. Depeyrot p. 134. </p><p><br /></p><p>The <i>deniers ugonencs</i> of the 12th to mid 13th century were one of the prime circulating denominations in Rouergue-Languedoc, at the very least until the Albigensian Crusade (Depeyrot p. 130), as it shows in the tresor de Toulouse (40% of the coins recovered are deniers from Rodez, Depeyrot p. 133).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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