Live auction - bfe_456100 - LANGUEDOC - COUNTY OF SAINT-GILLES - ALPHONSE JOURDAIN Denier
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| Estimate : | 650 € |
| Price : | no bid |
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| End of the sale : | 12 December 2017 16:35:25 |
Type : Denier
Date: 1112-1119/1125/7-1148
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Saint-Gilles ou Nîmes
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 0,92 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Ce denier est frappé sur un flan large et irrégulier. La croix du droit apparaît en négatif au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + ANFOS COMES.
Obverse description : Croix.
Obverse translation : (Alphonse, comte).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ONOR SCI EGIDI.
Reverse description : Agneau pascal passant à gauche, sous une croix à long pied accostée de deux besants.
Reverse translation : (Seigneurie de Saint-Gilles).
Historical background
LANGUEDOC - COUNTY OF SAINT-GILLES - ALPHONSE JOURDAIN
(1112-1148)
Alphonse Jourdain succeeded Bertrand as Count of Toulouse and was also Count of Saint-Gilles. Upon his death, Alfonso II was quickly replaced by Raymond V (1148-1194). Alphonse Jourdain, who was the son of Raymond IV of Saint-Gilles, wanted to reconquer the county of Tripoli from Guillaume II (1137-1152) his nephew, grandson of Bertrand, half-brother of Alphonse, but he died in 1148 in Caesarea of Lebanon during the second Crusade (1147-1149).
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