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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8265283, member: 110504&quot;][USER=107503]@VD76[/USER], is that a gigliato (on the module of a French gros tournois, instead of the prototypical Venetian grosso) of Robert of Anjou, the earlier-mid-14th-century Capetian who wound up with the Kingdom of Naples?</p><p>As a space filler, that&#039;s Just Fine.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have one, but they&#039;re resonantly iconic.&nbsp; ...What immediately comes to mind as a prototype are the similar issues of the Lusignan kingdom of Cyprus, beginning early in the same century.&nbsp; --Of which I also don&#039;t have an example, but also cool.&nbsp; I like how the obverse motif evokes both the Armenian trams of Levon I (about a century earlier, on the smaller module of the original Venetian grossos --along with contemporaneous, Ayyubid dirhams), and royal seals from western Europe during the whole interval.</p><p>...Your Antiocene folles, especially the crazy-late ones, are terrific.&nbsp; I&#039;m completely out of my league with Crusade-era stuff as late and correspondingly arcane as this, but you&#039;re making me sit up in my chair.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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