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French feudal coin: Counts of Gui, Nevers, Guy I (1168-75)

French feudal coin: Counts of Gui, Nevers, Guy I (1168-75)

$ 19.53

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    Description

    Billon denier
    , 19mm. Obv: COMES GUIDONI, central star and crescent (not visible on this coin). Rev: NIVERNIS CIVIT, central short cross.
    Mint is Nevers
    . Description from R. Lilly "The coin is centered, and has a grayish-silver color, but it is crudely struck, with weakness in the legends and the images. The crescent, star and staff are actually a degeneration from the word "rEX" in the center of the reverse on earlier coins of Nevers." R4166, Boud 342.
    From Lilly:
    "This city, at the confluence of the Loire and Nievre rivers in central France, was named Nevirnum in late Roman times, and the legend on the obverse of the coin refers to the city by a form of that latin name. In January, 1170, during the period when this type of coin was minted, the Pope commissioned the Bishop of Nevers and the Archbishop of Rouen to attempt to reconcile the differences between Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, and King Henry II of England. They failed in that endeavor, and Thomas was murdered in December of that year."
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