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Message:: [QUOTE="akeady, post: 7777895, member: 83175"]Yes - Guy de Dampierre, Count of Flanders, Marquis of Namur, as far as I can see. The only part of the coin I could clearly read was COMES (count), but a search threw this up - the legend fits.   With Google Chrome, you can easily translate the page: OBVERSEObverse legend: G CO-MES - FLA-DRE.Obverse description: Cross cutting the legend confined to three groups of three bezants placed in a triangle.Obverse translation: (Gui, count of Flanders).REVERSEReverse legend : + MARCHIO NAMVRC.Reverse description: Bust dressed from the front.Reverse translation: (Marquisat de NAMUR ).COMMENTThis coin is an imitation of English ESTERLIN s. The STERLING AS s and their imitations were particularly studied by NJ Mayhew, Sterling imitations of Edwardian guy, London, 1983. There are copies with two points before the G Law (Mayhew, No. 15-17, pp. 32-33 ).HISTORICALNAMUR - MARQUISATE OF NAMUR - GUI DE DAMPIERRE(1264-1297)At the end of the 12th century, the county of NAMUR was attached to that of Hainaut following the marriage of Alix de NAMUR with Baudouin IV, count of Hainaut. In 1199, Philippe, second son of Baudouin IV, obtained the county of NAMUR which was set up as a marquisate by the emperor Henri VI. Gui de Dampierre did not come into the possession of the Marquisate of NAMUR until 1264, when he married Isabelle, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg. In 1280 he inherited, from his mother's side, the county of Flanders. In 1297, he left the county of NAMUR to his son, Jean. He died in captivity in Paris in March 1305. ATB,Aidan.[/QUOTE]

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