bfe_1106344 - AUVERGNE - COUNTY OF RIOM - ALPHONSE DE FRANCE Denier
195.00 €(Approx. 226.20$ | 169.65£)
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Type : Denier
Date: c. 1263-1271
Date: s.m.
Mint name / Town : Riom
Metal : billon
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 1 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Ce denier est frappé sur un flan assez large et légèrement irrégulier. Patine grise. Quelques faiblesses de frappe. La croix du droit apparaît en négatif au revers
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Obverse
Obverse legend : + ALFVNSVS COMES.
Obverse description : Croix cantonnée au 2 d’un annelet, au 3 d’une étoile à cinq rais.
Obverse translation : (Alphonse, comte).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + RIOMNENSIS, (N ANNELÉE).
Reverse description : Châtel cantonné de deux croissants.
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.
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