[QUIZ-ac] When was this coin struck and for whom..?

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
03/04/2010 22:13

New series of history quizzes (I tried to make them more difficult than the former series...).

Rules as usual (I make them on the fly if necessary...).

First and only prize for the winner of the next five quizzes: a CD with medieval music from Cyprus ("The Island of St Hilarion").



This coin is from my (medieval) collection and is very rare and thin. They're always in this condition, this one is even regarded as quite good for the type!



The question: When was this coin struck and for whom..?



Click this link: http://www.allcrusades.com/BB_pics/QUIZ-ac.jpg



Answers before Sunday, 4 April, 8 pm.



Good luck! Hints may follow later...

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
03/04/2010 22:23

It was made for Richard the Lionheart to help pay for the crusades.



I'm probably wrong )

Jetski


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Message Posted:
03/04/2010 22:37

Looks a Guy of Lusignian coin to me....... sure I've got one somewhere. I'll check me loose change bottle.

Jetski


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Message Posted:
03/04/2010 22:41

Date - 1192 ish probably before lunch.

Hatty


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Message Posted:
03/04/2010 22:48

Richard I as king of England (1189-99), denier of Poitou



Richard I's coins of Poitou are the only coinage in the name of Richard as king, as his English coins carry the name of his father Henry II.

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
04/04/2010 13:35

No right answers in full yet... But, all who - above this message - wrote Richard or Richard I (not yet known as 'the Lionheart' or 'the Lionhearted' at the time!) get 1/4 point...

Hatty


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Message Posted:
04/04/2010 13:47

Hans, Just out of interest is this what they call a "short cross" coin?

Hatty


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Message Posted:
04/04/2010 13:52

Richard (Coeur de Lion)

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
04/04/2010 14:16

RE msg 7 & 8, Hatty: Coin: more about it when the Quiz is over, OK? Richard (Coeur de Lion): when this coin was struck (or should I call it minted?) Richard was not yet known by his nickname "Cœur de Lion". 2.15 pm: out for a beer now!

darrener2


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Posts: 187

Message Posted:
04/04/2010 14:41

Sorry, came to this quiz late.

It is the reverse side of a silver Denier, struck/minted for Richard and it bears the word Aquitaine and a cross around the outside. Richard was given the Duchy of Aquitaine by his father Henry II at the request of his Mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine.

The coin was probably struck/minted around or just after 1172 when he was formally recognised as Duke of Aquitaine.



D2

darrener2


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Message Posted:
04/04/2010 14:52

The coin was issued in the Duchy of Aquitaine so I suppose the date would be between 1172 and 1189 when he was Duke before he succeeded to the English throne.

D2

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
04/04/2010 21:33

[END of QUIZ-ac] Results tomorrow - I have other things to write at the moment.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
05/04/2010 00:23

[END of QUIZ-ac] Results tomorrow - I have other things to write at the moment.



Please make the questions a but harder Hans . )

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
05/04/2010 21:32

Answer to the Quiz-ac: It's an Anglo-Gallic coin (Obole) from the time of Richard, later known as King Richard I "the Lionhearted" (1189-199). He was Duke of Aquitaine between 1172-1185. In 1185 Richard was forced by his father (Henry II) to return Aquitaine to Eleanor, his mother (the only woman in history who married a French King, Louis, and later an English King, Henry). It's easy to Google all about Richard's real wild years as the second son of King Henry II - no use to copy/paste it all here.

The next QUIZ-(ad) is about a coin also (unless participants find the subject boring?), so more details will be given later.

The score: Darrener2: 1/2 pt, No1Doyen: 1/4 pt, Hatty: 1/4 pt.