v16_0770 - AUVERGNE - COUNTY OF RIOM - ALPHONSE DE FRANCE Denier

AUVERGNE - COUNTY OF RIOM - ALPHONSE DE FRANCE Denier VF

MONNAIES 16 (2002)
Starting price : 45.00 €
Estimate : 85.00 €
Realised price : 58.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 66.00 €

Type : Denier

Date: c. 1241-1263

Mint name / Town : Riom

Metal : billon

Diameter : 17,5 mm

Orientation dies : 9 h.

Weight : 1,00 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Ce denier est frappé sur un flan présentant une légère irrégularité à 8 heures au droit. Une patine grise avec de petites taches grises recouvre les deux faces de cet exemplaire

Catalogue references :

Bd.385 (2 f.) - PA.2267 (50/1)

Obverse

Obverse legend : ALFVNSVS COMES.

Obverse description : Châtel à fronton crénelé, coupant la légende en haut, et orné de deux besants.

Obverse translation : (Alphonse, comte).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + DE RIOMENSIS, (POINT DANS LE O).

Reverse description : Croix.

Reverse translation : (de Riom).

Historical background

AUVERGNE - COUNTY OF RIOM - ALPHONSE DE FRANCE

(1241-1271)

Alphonse de France (1220-1271) is the son of Louis VIII and Blanche de Castille. By his marriage in 1241 with Jeanne, daughter of the count of Toulouse, Raymond VII, he became the heir to the count's crown. When his father-in-law died in 1249, he inherited the county of Toulouse and the marquisate of Provence. His brother, Louis IX, gave him the prerogative of Poitou and the county of Riom (around 1229-1230) which must return to the crown in the absence of descendants of Alphonse. Alphonse and his wife Jeanne died within eight days of each other in 1271. The counties of Poitou, Toulouse, Riom and the marquisate of Provence returned to the crown in the person of Philippe III le Bold.