bfe_322302 - LANGUEDOC - VISCOUNTCY OF BEZIERS - ROGER II Obole
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Type : Obole
Date: c. 1170-1190
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Béziers
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 0,31 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Cette obole est frappée sur un flan large, légèrement irrégulier et voilé. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise hétérogène. La croix du revers apparaît en négatif au droit
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection Claude Lainé et de MONNAIES 56, n° 250
Obverse
Obverse legend : + ROG’. VICECO, (LÉGENDE COMMENÇANT À 11 HEURES).
Obverse description : R barrée .
Obverse translation : (Roger, vicomte).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + BITERI CIVI.
Reverse description : Croix cantonnée au 2 d’un annelet.
Reverse translation : (Cité de Béziers).
Commentary
L’obole est nettement plus rare que le denier de Béziers.
Historical background
LANGUEDOC - VISCOUNTCY OF BEZIERS - ROGER II
(1167-1194)
The viscounts of Béziers were also viscounts of Carcassonne since the marriage of Raymond I (1002-1012) with Garsinde, viscountess of Béziers and Agde. Roger II succeeded Raymond Trencavel (1150-1167) who had been assassinated in the Sainte-Madeleine church in Béziers under the eyes of the bishop. Raymond Trencavel II, grandson of Roger II, was the last viscount of Carcassonne and Béziers from 1209 to 1247, in the midst of the Cathar heresy. Dispossessed of Carcassonne by Simon de Montfort in 1209, he ceded the two viscounties to the King of France, Louis IX, in 1247.
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