Record ID: CORN-841555
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Billon (base silver) blanc of Béarn, one of the historical provinces of France (part of Gascony), issued by François-Phébus (1479-83), now in three pieces and incomplete. Obv: +FRANCISCVSzFzDzGzDNSzBEA (Franciscus F D(ei) G(ratia) D(omi)N(u)s Bea(rni)); plain shield with arms two cows, with a besant above ('Ecusson simple, à deux vaches et surmonté d'un besant' [Poey d'Avent]). Rev: +PAXzETzHONORzFORQVIEzMORL; cross pattée, with F and E in 1st and 4th quarters respectively (nothing in 2nd and 3rd). The full meaning of this legend seems to be unclear: ['quand nous trouvons …
Created on: Wednesday 8th June 2016
Last updated: Monday 20th June 2016
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Record ID: CORN-5D559B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Billon Isilver alloyed with copper) dinero of Spanish ruler, possibly Pedro IV (1335-1387) or Alfonso V (1416-1458) with bust facing left on obverse and double cross fourchee on reverse. Cayon, 2005, p.323, nos.1794-1796.
Created on: Monday 7th December 2015
Last updated: Sunday 20th December 2015
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Record ID: CORN-06C126
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Billon denier of Henri II, King of Cyprus (1285-1324), mint uncertain. Obverse: +hENRI : REI : DE; cross Reverse: + IRLM : ED'ChIPR; rampant lion. Reference: D. M. Metcalf, Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, 2nd Edition (RNS Special Publication No.28; London, 1995), pp.195-6 and plate 29, 729-31.
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2012
Last updated: Monday 6th August 2012
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