Walking Back In Time From 1600 To Antiquity By Decades (V3.0)

**Not specifically attributable to this decade.**

Ferdinand & Isabella (1474 - 1504)
1474 - 1504, Cuenca, 18mm, 0.98g, 180°, Cayon 2240 ff
Obv: FERNANDVS ET EL ISABET. Crowned monogram.
Rev: REGINA CAST LEGION. Crowned monogram

And since the 1460s may soon be upon us (and since I picked this coin up after the 5th "How Far Back," but did not get to post it in the 6th), I'll post my earliest dated coin thus far (and maybe ever), this briquet from the County of Flanders, dated 1474, Levinson II-15:




Obv: Lion holding shield with quartered Burgundy coat of arms, KAROLVS DEI GRA DVX BVRG CO F
Rev: Floriate cross with small fleur-de-lis (Bruges mintmark) in center, BENEDIC HEREDITATI TVE

Super coins @tdz. I think I have one more that I want to post on this decade. How about if we drop back starting Friday morning so that folks can have a little time to post any remaining coins that they would like to?

I think this counts as being from the Wars of the Roses, although anything from England from this, the last and the next decades would be.

Edward IV First Reign Light Coinage Groat, 1465-1466

Tower. Silver, 3.06g. Class Vd. Mintmark Rose. Quatrefoils by neck, nothing on breast, EDWARD DI GRA REX AnGL Z FRAnC (Edward by the grace of God King of England and France). CIVITAS LONDON (City of London), +POSVI DEVM ADIVTOREM MEVM (I have made God my helper), extra pellet under civi (S 2000).

The rose mintmark dates it to 1464-6 or 1468-9, while Type V was struck early, with a particularly large number of Type Vd struck. The quatrefoils by the neck (not annulets) date it to the second issue.

Wow, so many great coins! That groat is lovely, @JohnConduitt!

My coin today is by another King of France , and while it cannot be narrowed down to a single decade, I don't want to withhold it from you. It is certainly not my most beautiful coin, but the depiction of a dolphin - by someone who has never seen one - has an irresistible charm.

France 1467-83, liard, Louis XI, Troyes. Billon, 1.03 g, 19.5 mm. Duplessy 560, Lafaurie 543, Roberts 3681.



Obv: Dolphin (well ...).
Inscription: LVDOVICVS FRANCORum REX (Louis King of the Franks).
Point under the 14th letter ('C') for Troyes.

Rev: Cross with fleurs-de-lys and crowns.
Inscription: SIT NOMEn DomiNI BENEDICTVm (Blessed be the name of the Lord).
Point under the 14th letter ('E') for Troyes.

A liard equalled 3 deniers tournois and this is the first liard from the French royal domain. Liards had by then been minted for a hundred years in the province of Dauphine, which for historical reasons minted for the heir apparent to the French crown (so sort of a feudal minting). All those liards showed a dolphin looking like this, copied from the coat of arms of Dauphine. When the royal domain copied the denomination, the design followed along.


Coat of arms of Dauphine. (C) Matthieu Riegler, Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY (cropped)

Very nice variety this decade.
Sorry to interrupt the animal theme (dolphin, crow) ...

but I realized I have a coin from this decade that relates to @JohnC's gorgeous Edward IV groat...and also @princetane's comment on War of the Roses.

Duke Charles "the Bold" (or "the Rash") of Burgundy was an ally of Edward IV during the War of the Roses. He was married to Margaret of York, Edward's younger sister. He provided refuge for Edward in Holland and Flanders during his exile of 1470-1471. And he gave military aid to Edward in his successful bid to regain the crown. (Unfortunately, Charles was less successful in his own military ventures, dying in battle in January, 1477 while trying to capture Lorraine for his never-to-be Kingdom of Burgundy).
His portrait by Rogier van der Weyden circa 1460, a few years before he inherited the title from his father (edit: yikes! sorry it's so large):


Now the coin! Here is a double patard (=2 stuiver or 4 gros) of the Duchy of Brabant issued in Charles' name (most of the Low Countries were under Burgundian rule at this time). The coin cannot be dated narrower than 1468-1474.



Obv: Quartered arms of Burgundy. KAROLVS DEI GRA DVX BG BRA Z LIM (Charles, by God's grace Duke of Burgundy, Brabant and Limburg)
Rev: Floriate cross. SIT NOMEN DOMININ BENEDICTVM AM (Blessed is the name of the Lord, amen).

I recently re-did photos of a gold coin I have for next decade because the ones I had looked washed out and more like silver... I think they are especially susceptible to lighting.

Very cool coin.