bfe_1121749 - LANGUEDOC - COUNTY OF TOULOUSE - ALPHONSE JOURDAIN Obole
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Type : Obole
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Toulouse
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 0,57 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Obole frappé sur un flan large et légèrement irrégulier. Petits chocs sur la tranche. Concrétions sur les deux faces, Patine homogène et hauts reliefs nets
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + ANFOS COMES, (S COUCHÉES, M ET E LIÉS).
Obverse description : Croix cantonnée aux 2 et 3 d’une crosse.
Obverse translation : (Alphonse, comte).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + TOLOSA CIVI.
Reverse description : PAX (le P étant formé part une crosse avec pointe de flèche).
Reverse translation : (Cité de Toulouse).
Historical background
LANGUEDOC - COUNTY OF TOULOUSE - ALPHONSE JOURDAIN
(1112-1148)
Alphonse Jourdain succeeded Bertrand as Count of Toulouse. He was also Count of Saint-Gilles. Alphonse Jourdain, who was the son of Raymond IV of Saint-Gilles, wanted to reconquer the county of Tripoli from Guillaume II (1137-1152) his nephew, grandson of Bertrand, half-brother of Alphonse, but he died in 1148 in Caesarea of Lebanon during the second Crusade (1147-1149). Raymond V succeeded him (1148-1194).
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