bfe_331483 - PROVENCE - COUNTY OF PROVENCE - CHARLES I OF ANJOU Denier mansois
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Type : Denier mansois
Date: c. 1246-1266
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Tarascon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 479 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 1,06 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire de ce rarissime monnayage. Patine foncée. Exemplaire ébréché à 11 heures
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + K COMES PROVINCIE.
Obverse description : Monogramme dégénéré d'Herbert.
Obverse translation : (Charles, comte de Provence).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + FILI' REGIS FRANCE.
Reverse description : Croix cantonnée aux 1 et 4 d'un besant, au 3 d'un lis, au 4 d’un alpha.
Reverse translation : (Fils du roi de France).
Historical background
PROVENCE - COUNTY OF PROVENCE - CHARLES I OF ANJOU
(1246-1285)
Charles (1226-1285) is the last son of Louis VIII and Blanche de Castille. He married Béatrice in 1246, the daughter of Raymond Béranger V of Provence. He is count of Anjou, Maine and Provence (1246-1285), king of Sicily and Naples (1266-1285), titular king of Jerusalem (1277-1285). He lost Sicily in 1282 after the Sicilian Vespers which saw the house of Aragon impose itself on the island after the massacre of the French.
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