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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8296272, member: 110504&quot;]I just stumbled back onto a trove of untitled coin .jpgs in a &#039;camera uploads&#039; file.&nbsp; (A misnomer in the first place, because apart from a few of my own initial, maladroit efforts, they&#039;re mostly dealers&#039; pics.&nbsp; Yeah, I know.)&nbsp; This is one from the viscounty of Chateaudun, a series I&#039;ve collected relatively extensively.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1467034[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1467035[/ATTACH] </p><p>This one is dated c. 1200-1210.&nbsp; They&#039;re all anonymous until shortly after this; it took Louis IX&#039;s purchase of the viscounty from the count of Blois for them to begin being issued in the viscounts&#039; own names, as tenants-in-chief of the king rather than subtenants of Blois.</p><p>Obv. abstract, &#039;bleso-chartrain&#039; profile; rev. &#039;+CASTRI DVnI.&#039;&nbsp; Duplessy 488.</p><p>This variety is chiefly known by the star on the obverse, but I like it especially for the Lombardic &#039;n&#039; on the reverse.&nbsp; Earlier medievals are notorious for the way their legends lag behind the adoption of Gothic in other media, starting, naturally, with writing.&nbsp; This is pretty early for a Gothic &#039;n.&#039;</p><p>And, why not, here&#039;s a shot of the castle, from Wikimedia Commons.&nbsp; The donjon, built and elevated between the later 12th and earlier 13th centuries, is next to the chapel, with a Renaissance residential block to the side.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1467039[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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