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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8286524, member: 110504&quot;][USER=74712]@FitzNigel[/USER], to wallow in the obvious, thre&#039;s absolutely no shame in having an Eleanor like that!&nbsp; I could rattle off half a dozen examples of mine that follow exactly the same principle --most of which you&#039;ve probably seen.&nbsp; ...And yeah, overpaying (or, alternately, losing to people who do) is becoming a serious trend.&nbsp; Medieval collectors are making real inroads in stealing Classical collectors&#039; thunder, in that regard.</p><p>BTW, belated but sincere thanks for your kind words about last Monday&#039;s post from me.&nbsp; ...Why not, here&#039;s my other one that early with a castle.&nbsp; --A rerun, but it goes back a ways.</p><p>Seigneurie de Saint-Aignan.&nbsp; Denier traditionally assigned to Herve III, also Seigneur de Donzy (1157-1187), but characterized by Duplessy (610) only as anonymous, &quot;vers 1170-1180.&quot;&nbsp; Sorry for the pics.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1464208[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1464210[/ATTACH]</p><p>Obv.&nbsp; Castle (possibly timber this early, otherwise likely a kind of masonry &#039;shell keep&#039;), surmounted by a cross, on a motte, the base of which divides the legend.&nbsp; From 12 o&#039;clock: [+]CAS [...] .T. [...] RVM.&nbsp; Rev.: +SANCTI ANIAI.</p><p>Schematic as the coin is, it&#039;s fun for coinciding with a real castle, ruinous but extant.&nbsp; Here&#039;s the &#039;shell keep&#039; (possibly the inner curtain around a central donjon, now fallen), which looks typically 12th-earlier 13th century.&nbsp; Followed by a view of the wider context, with buildings dating from the Renaissance to the 19th century.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1464211[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1464213[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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