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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 8106118, member: 56653&quot;][USER=110504]@+VGO.DVCKS[/USER] -- your Henry has an S couchee mine does not (following at a glance the S couchee seems to be a feature employed regularly from Louis onward), Richard&#039;s issues from lack of space have the S in Italic but with the same general shape as Alienor and most of Henry&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>An even clearer break is in the G&#039;s -- Guillaume&#039;s Bordeaux coinage has the complex 2-punch G, Louis typ 2 has the q while from Alienor to Richard there&#039;s the pseudo/half-uncial G, while on Henry&#039;s coinage the spelling is as far as I have seen AQVITANIE (and some scarcer Alienor also have this spelling or at least something inbetween the old Bordeaux G, Henry&#039;s Q and Richard&#039;s G) -- thus we have as follows (generally speaking) on the cross side:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>- pre-1137</b>, the Bordeaux coinage likely immobilized from the grand denier of ca. 1000:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1410022[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>-<b> Alienor types</b>, first resembling both G from Guillaume&#039;s and the Q from Henry&#039;s issues, and then becoming the G from Richard&#039;s coinage -- the coinage no longer mentions Bordeaux:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1410032[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1410033[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>- <b>Richard types</b>, with different degrees of the &#039;Aquitaine G&#039; (this is probably the bulk of the coinage of Aquitaine from the second half of the 12th century, struck from the 1170s to at least 1189 or possibly to 1200):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1410042[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1410044[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1410043[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>- <b>Hugo de Lusignan</b>, Bellac mint(?) post-1200:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1410045[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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