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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7776034, member: 110504"]Solid ones, [USER=74712]@FitzNigel[/USER]. The strikes and preservation of the Bohemian series are pretty exceptional for the whole period.</p><p>From the sublime to the ridiculous, here's a denier of Barthélémi de Montcornet, bishop of Beauvais (in Picardie /northeast France) 1162-1175. Scarce; bought unattributed on Delcampe (those were the good old days).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1333791[/ATTACH] </p><p>Obv. [+]BAR[TOLOMEVS].</p><p>Rev. Degraded Carolingian monogram; [+BE]LVA[CENSIS].</p><p>Boudeau (c. 1912) 1895, listing a reasonable example at 20 fr.; Poey d'Avant (mid-19th c.) 6468.</p><p>Another example of the paucity of current references for large geographic swaths of the French feudal series. Duplessy's ongoing update is only at two volumes, with the entire eastern part of the country (notably Champagne and Burgundy --two of the primary subseries) unrepresented. To this day, I rely on the archives of the .cgb website (along with ACsearch and CoinArchives), bouncing off Boudeau and Roberts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7776034, member: 110504"]Solid ones, [USER=74712]@FitzNigel[/USER]. The strikes and preservation of the Bohemian series are pretty exceptional for the whole period. From the sublime to the ridiculous, here's a denier of Barthélémi de Montcornet, bishop of Beauvais (in Picardie /northeast France) 1162-1175. Scarce; bought unattributed on Delcampe (those were the good old days). [ATTACH=full]1333791[/ATTACH] Obv. [+]BAR[TOLOMEVS]. Rev. Degraded Carolingian monogram; [+BE]LVA[CENSIS]. Boudeau (c. 1912) 1895, listing a reasonable example at 20 fr.; Poey d'Avant (mid-19th c.) 6468. Another example of the paucity of current references for large geographic swaths of the French feudal series. Duplessy's ongoing update is only at two volumes, with the entire eastern part of the country (notably Champagne and Burgundy --two of the primary subseries) unrepresented. To this day, I rely on the archives of the .cgb website (along with ACsearch and CoinArchives), bouncing off Boudeau and Roberts.[/QUOTE]
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