Sometimes I wonder what people have used the coins that I have...

...and then I wonder what coins these people used. My guess is medieval French coins, so post them if you have them!

It’s not everyday that you see the people that used the coins that you collect, especially in this forum.

 

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I really like your signature line!

 

What do the signs say?

 

Can we get a French Translator over here?

 

Something about the disposal of innocents in a cemetary

 

bones of the cemetery of St Eustache deposited in May 1787

 

This photos remind me of a place I visited several years ago. It is in a town called Faro in Portugal. Its name is the cappella des ossos "the chapel of the bones". The story is that there was a massive earthquake and many monks died. their bones were interred in this chapel.

Photos are not my own

 

First one: Bones of the Cemetery of the Innocents, deposited in April 1787. (This was the first batch of bones brought into the catacombs).

Second: Bones of the Cemetery of St. Eustache, deposited in May 1787.

 

Probably the 1755 Lisbon quake.

 

It won't take me long to show my whole medieval French collection.
Archbishop of Vienne (Southern France) c.1250 AD St. Martin/cross


Richard I of Normandy 17 December 942 – 20 November 996

Both are probably too old to have been spent by the bones shown in the stacks.

 

Some of the cemeteries had been in use for hundreds of years before they were emptied, so you never know.

 

Here are a few medieval French coins.

Guillaume X father of Eleanor of Aquitaine


FRANCE. PROVINCIAL. Aquitaine. Guillaume X. 1127-1137. AR denier. 1.05 gm. 20 mm. Bordeaux mint. Four central crosslets; +GVILILMO around ("G" is made up of two distinct punches) / Short cross with flared ends; +BVRDEGVLA around. Poey D'Avant 2733. Roberts 4301. Good Very Fine.The Douglas Bayern Collection. William X, the father of Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Henry II of England.Davissons Printed Auction 37 Lot 328. Feburary 21, 2018.

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Eleanor of Aquitaine (1137-1204)

Anglo-Gallic Aquitaine
Denier
(17.93 mm 0.69 g 12h)
12h (E 11; W 9; S 8011
Obv: two cross patt‚e divided by a pellet, m above, a below, +dvcis it,
Rev. +aqvitanie, cross patte
Coins and historical medals from the collection formed by the late Revd. Charles Campbell
Dix Noonan Webb Online Auction September 13, 2017 Lot 163

Phillip II Auguste


Phillipe II Auguste
1180-1223
(17.57 mm 0.79 g)
fine
Denier tournois n.d.
Grade:VF|Abbreviations
Catalog:C.165-166 Mar.130-131 Mar.130-131 L.193 Dy.176
TOURAINE - SAINT-MARTIN DE TOURS –
Obverse :+ PHILLIPVS RE Croix
Reverse :+ SCS MARTIN[VS], (A et N bouletés) Châtel tournois
Purchased from CGB.fr on Ma shops August 1, 2017

Louis IX

Louis IX (1226-1270) AR Gros Tournois
(25.20 mm, 3.55 g)
Obv:légende intérieure : + LVDOVICVS. REX
légende extérieure : + BNDICTV: SIT: NOmE: DHI: nRI: DEI: IhV. XPI, (ponctuation par trois besants superposés).
Rev: TVRONVS. CIVIS,
Purchased from Ebay February 2017

Charles VI


France Blanc Guénar 1380-1422
(27.36 mm 2.55 g)
Charles VI - ND (1380-1422) - Mintmark Tours Sixth Point
Catalog: Monnaies Françaises Royales DupR 377
Material: Billon
Purchased from Numiscollection on ma shops August 4, 2017.

Charles VII (as Dauphin)



CHARLES VII (1422-1440) DAUPHINÉ - DAUPHINS DU VIENNOIS - Denier ? dentillé n.d. Romans R1 billon
(20.24 mm, 1,20 g,)
Obverse : KARO-LVS - FRAn - REX Croix coupant la légende
Reverse : + DALPhS [VI]EnESIS Dauphin à gauche dans un polylobe
Ref : Bd.- Morinn° 71 p. 265, (pl. 16/6) PA.4963 (110/9) Roberts 6577.
Purchased from Ebay November 28, 2016.

 

Oh I forgot I have a couple French medievals.

Gros minted in Metz, 1380-1500 (I think).



Denar of Strasbourg, 1450-1550.

 

That morbidly fascinating!

Maybe this would have been something some of them would have seen in their lifetimes?