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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8103667, member: 110504&quot;]Brilliant explication, [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER].&nbsp; Sorry not to have responded yesterday; life happened.&nbsp; </p><p>Your assigning the ostensible /we hope issues of Eleanor (&#039;DVCISIT,&#039; Duplessy 1025) to the interval of 1152-4 smacks of deduction as much as induction.&nbsp; Even in a polity as progressive as Aquitaine, Eleanor might have seen fit to mint anonymously, perhaps by prior agreement with Henri/-y.&nbsp; </p><p>I&#039;ve been paying attention to the variations in letter forms for as long as I&#039;ve been collecting, but I never got beyond broad regional similarities.&nbsp; The lettering is very distinct from Poitou and points south, as compared to further north.&nbsp; I notice some northern mints appropriating the southern features (prominently including the couchant &#039;S&#039;), as far afield as the duchy of Burgundy, especially from, say, the early 13th century.&nbsp; But I&#039;ve never gotten further than thinking in terms of regional varieties per se, and shifting &#039;fashions&#039; as the lettering began to abandon post-Carolingian /Romanesque forms in favor of Gothic on a more universal basis.&nbsp; Interesting thought, that the connection between Poitou/Aquitaine and La Marche could have been more substantive than that.&nbsp; They certainly were right next door to eachother, independently of the (fairly extreme) vagaries of political relations between the Lusignans and the Angevins.</p><p>(Just got up.&nbsp; This is the best I&#039;m going to do right now....)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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