bfe_330348 - LANGUEDOC - COUNTY OF TOULOUSE - ALPHONSE OF POITIERS Denier tournois
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 80.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 80.00 €
Type : Denier tournois
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Toulouse
Metal : billon
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 0,95 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Ce denier est frappé sur un flan assez voilé, irrégulier et est recouvert d’une patine grise. La croix du droit apparaît en négatif au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + A CO FILIVS REG.
Obverse description : Croix.
Obverse translation : (Alphonse, comte, fils du roi).
Reverse
Reverse legend : THOLOSA CIVI.
Reverse description : Châtel tournois sommé d’une croix languedocienne coupant la légende en haut.
Reverse translation : (Cité de Toulouse).
Historical background
LANGUEDOC - COUNTY OF TOULOUSE - ALPHONSE OF POITIERS
(1249-1271)
Alphonse (1220-1271), second brother of Saint-Louis was also count of Poitou, Auvergne and Toulouse by his marriage to Jeanne, the daughter of Raymond VII. He succeeded the latter in 1249 and introduced the chatel tournaments to Montreuil Bonin from 1251. He perhaps wanted to recall his rights at a time when Saint Louis was a prisoner in the Holy Land by recalling that he was "Alphonse, count, King's son". The cross surmounting the Tournament Châtel has been variously described. We think it is the cross of Languedoc.
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