bfe_254915 - PÉRIGORD - COUNTY OF PÉRIGORD - ANONYMOUS Obole

PÉRIGORD - COUNTY OF PÉRIGORD - ANONYMOUS Obole XF

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Price : 70.00 €

Type : Obole

Date: c.1200-1250

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Périgueux ?

Metal : silver

Diameter : 16 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 0,42 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Cette obole est frappée sur un flan irrégulier présentant de petits éclatements de flan. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise. La croix du droit apparaît légèrement en négatif au revers

Catalogue references :

Bd.447 (2 f.) - PA.2662 (57/5)

Obverse

Obverse legend : + LODOICVS (TROIS POINTS POSÉS EN TRIANGLE).

Obverse description : Croix cantonnée au 2 d'un A, au 3 d'une S.

Obverse translation : (Louis).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + EGOLISSIME, (S COUCHÉES).

Reverse description : Cinq annelets posés en croix dans le champ.

Reverse translation : (Angoulême).

Historical background

PÉRIGORD - COUNTY OF PÉRIGORD - ANONYMOUS

(12th-13th centuries)

The county of Périgord was attributed in 1006 to Hélie II, count of La Marche, by Guillaume V le Grand (990-1029) in order to settle the succession of Adalbert. His other son, Bernard, received the county of La Marche. Perigord coinage could begin at this time. Was the workshop located in Périgueux, La Sale-au-Comte or the Château de Puy-Saint-Front, a century and a half later, as A. Dieudonné indicates (see MNF., P.225) ? The count's coinage did not begin before Hélie VI (1245-1251) with denarii in the name of the count. Previously, we find the reigns of Hélie V de Talleyrand (1166-1205), Archambaud I (1205-1212) and Archambaud II (1212-1245).

PÉRIGORD - COUNTY OF PÉRIGORD - ANONYMOUS Obole VF

64.00 €

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