v61_0515 - LANGUEDOC - VISCOUNTCY OF CARCASSONNE - BERNARD ATON IV TRENCAVEL Denier
MONNAIES 61 (2014)
Starting price : 800.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 800.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: c. 1090-1120
Mint name / Town : Carcassonne
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 0,85 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Ce très rare denier à haut relief est malheureusement fragmentaire
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : BERNA[RDV]S CO.
Obverse description : croix cerclée.
Obverse translation : (Bernard comte).
Reverse
Reverse legend : [C]ARCASONA CI[VI].
Reverse description : ATTE dans le champ.
Reverse translation : (Cité de Carcasonne).
Historical background
LANGUEDOC - VISCOUNTCY OF CARCASSONNE - BERNARD ATON IV TRENCAVEL
(1083-1129)
The coinage of Carcassonne begins at the end of the 10th century, around 980-1000. The viscounts of Béziers were also viscounts of Carcassonne since the marriage of Raymond I (1002-1012) with Garsinde, viscountess of Béziers and Agde. Raymond Trencavel 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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