bfe_715843 - PROVENCE - COUNTY OF PROVENCE - CHARLES I OF ANJOU Denier tournois
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Price : 150.00 €
Type : Denier tournois
Date: c. 1266-1277
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Avignon
Metal : billon
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 0,81 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie frappée sur un flan irrégulier et plutôt large. La croix du droit apparaît légèrement en négatif au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + K’ CO. P. FI. RE. F.
Obverse description : Croix.
Obverse translation : (Charles, comte de Provence...)
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Reverse
Reverse legend : PVINCIALIS.
Reverse description : Châtel tournois contenant un lis, sommé d’une croisette.
Reverse translation : (de Provence).
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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