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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8170822, member: 110504&quot;][USER=56653]@seth77[/USER], I think you nailed the attribution of your Hugues II.&nbsp; It&#039;s easy to imagine that the whole series was billon from the onset ...with typical wear to the silvering.</p><p>I like how the module(s) of the petit deniers of of Flanders and elsewhere in the neighborhood, across Picardy and the Low Countries, were a direct response to how ubiquitous billon was in French issues, both feudal and royal.&nbsp; Wish you, in particular, could stop me in time, but in those cases, the collective solution was to issue coins of reasonably fine silver, but on a dramatically reduced module.</p><p>Another factor reinforcing your Hugues II being an official issue is the fine, contemporaneous lettering style, complementing the literacy of the legends, as you noted.&nbsp; ...Yes, I&#039;ve always paid attention to lettering styles of the period, in the feudal series and elsewhere.&nbsp; --Never to the level of attention that you&#039;ve invested in the subject, to the extent of trying to pin down individual die sinkers.&nbsp; But, especially in comparison to lettering in other media (especially calligraphy and sculpture in metal and stone), it&#039;s fun to see the evolution, specifically in coins, from neo- Carolingian&nbsp; /Romanesque to early and High Gothic.&nbsp; ...Including the readily observable lag in Gothic lettering, while the medium catches up with the more&nbsp; technologically forgiving ones.</p><p>This is why I love the legends of Henry III Long Cross pennies.&nbsp; They even include the kind of elision you see in the contemporary manuscripts of Matthew Paris.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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