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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 8264385, member: 56653&quot;]This is a horrible coin from the period when billon for the petty coinage was getting &quot;noir&quot; again because of debasement (this one is actually of decent title by the looks tho), but very rare: a denier for Jeanne de Savoie as Viscountess of Limoges (1329-1334). She was the third wife of Jean III, the last Dreux count of Brittany, from which she held Limoges in fief until 1334 and afterwards kept the revenue of the viscounty until 1341 at the death of Jean. She also lay claim to her ancestral domain of Savoie in 1330 and relinquished it in 1338.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1457963[/ATTACH]</p><p>AR16x15mm 0.79g billon denier, minted in the city of Limoges, cca. 1330-1334.</p><p>+ IhA DVXIT º BRIT º; field separated in 4 quarters, 1st and 4th quarter the coat of arms of the Duchy of Bretagne (three mouchetures d&#039;hermine) and 2nd and 3rd quarter the coat of arms of Dreux family.</p><p>VIC º LEMOVICEn º; cross, coat of arms of Savoy (cross potent) in 2nd quarter.</p><p>Boudeau 404, p. 52, Poey d&#039;Avant 2320, Jezequel L10</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The whole story of her standing as duchess of Brittany, viscountess in Limoges and her claim in Savoy is neatly present in the heraldic devices of this coin: the Dreux-Bretagne coat-of-arms on the obverse and the Savoy cross potent in the second quarter of the reverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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