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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 4690852, member: 56653&quot;]Two <i>deniers tournois</i> of two brothers who ruled two nearby realms with very closely-related names: Alphonse de France and Charles I d&#039;Anjou in the Marquisat de Provence and County of Provence.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1153373[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">ALPHONSE de FRANCE as Count of TOULOUSE (1249-1271)</font></p><p><font size="3">AR18mm, 1.01g, billon denier tournois, Pont-de-Sorgues mint, between cca. 1251-1263</font></p><p><font size="3">+ MARCh PVINCIЄ; Cross pattee.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;A&#039; COMES&#039; TOLOSЄ; Chateau tournois surmonted by cross.</font></p><p><font size="3">Poey d&#039;Avant 3735 p. 256, Pl. 81 no. 20, Boudeau 791 p. 98 (Boudeau II féodales, catalogue général illustré de monnaies provinciales), Duplessy 1608A.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1153374[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">CHARLES I d&#039;ANJOU as Count of Provence (1246-1285)</font></p><p><font size="3">AR18mm 0.66g billon denier tournois provencal, type 2e Tarascon mint<b>,</b> cca. 1249-1266.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font size="3">+. K. CO: P. FI. RE. F . Cross pattee</font></p><p><font size="3">+ PVINCIALIS; Chateau tournois with fleur-de-lys surmounted by cross</font></p><p><font size="3">Boudeau #811 (Boudeau II féodales, catalogue général illustré de monnaies provinciales), Poey d&#039;Avant #3947, Rolland 20b (Monnaies des comtes de Provence, XIIe-XVe siècles)</font></p><p><br /></p><p>These <i>deniers tournois</i> of the Marquisat and County of Provence were imitations after the royal <i>tournois</i> of Louis IX, who was also the brother of the two princes. Both Alphonse and Charles took part in the Seventh and Eighth Crusade alongside their brother King Louis. After the Treaty of Viterbo in 1267, much of the <i>provencal</i> coinage that had been minted for Charles and some of that minted in the Marquisat for Alphonse was sent East to Outremer, where it became the blueprint for the coinage of the Greek Frankokratia and later in the 14th and 15th centuries for the petty coinage of the Kingdom of Naples.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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