Post your coins with rulers who had been given nicknames

Yes, but she did take 40+ years to do it. Mary crammed it all into 5 years. Both were angels compared to their father.

Richard the Lionheart.
Class 4a penny, ROBERD ON CAN(terbury)

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

Philip Le Bon (the Good) 1396 -1467
Duke of Luxembourg/ Burgundy/ Barbant Count of Holland/ Zeeland/ Namur
AV Cavalier d'or ND Brussels Mint
He is noted for handing over Jeanne D'Arc to the English/ who found her guilty of witchcraft in a "mockery of justice". She was burned alive on the stake by the English, who failed to beat her on the battlefield.

 

Not really true. We have had this conversation before.

 

Germany HESSE_CASSEL Moritz the Learned Reichstaler 1593

 

I don’t own this coin but I googled it and it came up with this

 

Philip the IV of France double tournois also called “Philip the fair”. The despot who butchered the knights Templar

 

I found the article, but it mentions the piece as belonging to his grandfather, Mircea the Elder, not Vlad the Impaler.

 

Edward the Elder (899-924). Two line penny, the moneyer is Thurlac.

 

It's pretty much as struck. It came out of the Vatican Hoard sold at Glendining in 1929. Provenance as follows:
Vatican Hoard 356, Glendining 16/5/1929, lot 79 part
R C Lockett 2730 part, Glendining 4/11/1958, bt Seaby
SCMB July 1959 no.5635, £7 EF as struck.
C S Raine 108, Davisson 34, 21/1/2015 (From Jack Kerin 1970-80?)

 

Well, here's another Romanian coin for you. I think the attribution is correct.

Principality of MOLDAVIA Ioan Voda cel Cumplit (John the Terrible) (Feb. 1572-June 1574)
Copper Akce 7081 (years from the beginning of the world in the Slavonic calendar = 1573)
MBR p.90-91, 801-807. Mitchiner E 2345. I understand this is considered the first Romanian coin with a legend in Romanian.

 

To be honest , i have never seen a better preserved piece for the type and this one is very rare. Everything you've said is true and the life of Ioan was very interesting, sadly, the end of it was awful!

 

As I understand it, Ioan got the name the Terrible because early in his reign in 1572 he tortured and killed many people; laymen and priests, to seize their hidden treasure. In 1574 the Turks demanded the annual tribute be doubled. John went to war against them and was defeated at the battle of Lake Cahul and then beheaded.
Most of your voivods seem to have had lives that were nasty, brutish and short. Rough place, the Balkans !

 

Bhumibol Adulyadej "King Bhumibol the Great" aka "Rama IX", world's longest reigning current monarch until his death in 2016 (70 years 126 days), second-longest reigning monarch of all time (behind Louis XIV), longest reigning monarch to have reigned only as an adult. (From the 50th anniversary set)

 

His body was tied to four camels , driven in different directions , also beheaded!

 

William II (Rufus). Type 3 penny of Watchet. SIGOLFF ON PICI

 

I am not sure clicking LIKE is appropriate here but thank you for adding interesting and colourful detail

 

I am constantly amazed by the quality of your medieval English coins. From what I know, William Rufus rarely comes this good