Antioch, Bohemond III
Antioch, Bohemond III (1163-1201), billon helmet-head denier, Class C, struck circa 1163-1188. Obv: helmeted head left, star to right, crescent to left, +BOAMVNDVS. Rev: cross, crescent in second quarter, +ANTIOCHIA. Weight 1.00 grams, 18 mm. Well struck and well centered good VF, gently (and non-abrasivley) cleaned. SOLD

Kingdom of Cyprus
Crusader States, Cyprus, Hugh IV, 1324-1359, AR Gros (4.51g). King enthroned, B with pellet above to left/Cross, small crosses in quadrants, ex. James Stewart Coll., Schl. VI, 24.

James II of Cyprus (1460-73)

AE denier, 18mm, 1.86gr. Obv: +IACOBUS DE GRAIS XX, central lion of Cyprus rampant. Rev: +EX IDERUSALEM, central cross of Jerusalem. Mint is Cyprus. Malloy 166.

Richard I of Normandy (942-996)
AR denier, 21mm, 1.155g. Obv: RICARDVS, central + with four besants. Rev: ROTOMACVS, with 'c' on its side, central temple avec besant au center du fronton. Mint is Rouen. Dumas 773-2669. There were 46 of these coins in the 1.15 weight category, of a total of 332 of all Richard types in this weight category. This is the most common of the Fecamp coins. This was identified as 'ex Fecamp.' Not in R, PdA.

The motif appeared in 11th C Swiss coinage (although this was French influence at the time).

The coin: "Denier à la légende chrétienne, c. 822-840, (Argent, 20.5mm, 1,62gr), (poids théorique 2,039 g, taille 1/240 L., pm. 1,688g.). Obv: A/+ HLVDOVVICVS IMP. (Louis empereur). Croix cantonnée de quatre besants. Rev: R/XPISTIANA RELIGIO. (Religion chrétienne). Temple tétrastyle avec un fronton triangulaire sommé d'une croisette, une croix au centre posée sur deux degrés. Flan large et régulier. Monnaie bien centrée." Description from CGB catalogue Monnaies VIII item 1055. Louis took the mint name off his coins after 822 and standardized the coinage. These 'temple style' coins can't be identified by mint, but there are variations among them on the reverse. Roberts notes that "over 5000 specimans of this type have survived, making it the commonist in the Carolingian series." Roberts 1208; MG 472 (the most common type. The R/MG concordance matches to R1216.); Depeyrot 8 A1 (p.41) and 1179 (sans atelier), (794 examples); Belaubre 58-60.
"La légende de revers (la religion chrétienne), inaugurée par Charlemagne, s'accompagne de la représentation d'un temple. C'est une nouvelle preuve de l'union du pouvoir politique et de l'Église inaugurée en 754 par le premier carolingien, Pépin le Bref. Un changement de taille dans les deniers intervient vers 822. Il est alors fabriqué 20 sous ou 240 deniers dans une livre de 18 onces, ce qui donne un poids théorique de 2,039 g. Ce type va être frappé pendant plus de deux siècles dans l'Occident médiéval. Le denier au temple est normalement une monnaie anonyme, sans lieu d'émission. Néanmoins, certains ateliers caractéristiques ont pu être isolés : c'est le cas de Dax, Orléans, Dorestadt, Maastricht, Trèves, Milan et Venise. Nous avons certainement affaire à un exemplaire posthume mais de bon poids (1,65 g), antérieur à la fin du IXe siècle. Ces monnaies ont été imitées par Louis le Germanique (840-876), Louis II le Bègue (877-879) ou Louis III de Saxe (876-882) ou enfin Louis III de France (879-882), sans oublier Louis III l'Aveugle (901-905)."

Louis the Pious (814-840)

AR denier, 20mm, 1.76 gr. Obv: +HLVDOVVICVS IMP, central cross, no besants. Rev: +XPISTIANA RELIGIO, central temple with dot in the pediment. Mint is possibly Treves (Trier). R1211v (this has a + on either side of the temple. It is cross referenced to Gariel 43-24 which also has a cross on either side of the temple. Dep 1067B (as Treves with the note "seules les monnaies XRISTIANA RELIGIO attribuees a Treves sont compatibisees ici."). He does not indicate the number studied and it is not possible to differentiate this coin from the Roberts/Gariel versions. MG- (the only coin the cite has + on either side of the temple); Prou - (whose only besantless coin matches to MG 508a which has a cross on each side of the coin, no temple); Bel -; Nouchy -. Simon Coupland (1990) says these coins which "can be attributed to Trier are primarily distinguished by the absence of pellets in the quadrants of the reverse cross." However, he goes on to say the absence of pellets is not enough (without identifying possibilities other than Trier) and Trier coins generally have "square solid lettering, the occasional inclusion of pellets in the reverse legend ... (and) solid and compact temples" and sometimes a cross on either side of the temple. This coin lacks the bracketing reverse crosses and pellets in the reverse legend. Overall, it is likely this is a Trier coin. Ex. Peter Woodward Collection.