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

Nice! Never heard of this denomination... so, does DVPLEX TVRONVS make it a 2 denier coin?

Very rich on England and France this decade. I won't have anything datable to a single year for next decade, but have a few with narrow ranges.

Tomorrow?

It's a double tournois alright, and it's nicknamed "niquet." A native French speaker would be great for accurate interpretation, but from what I can gather, the word in medieval times was used to denote something small, insignificant, despicable. This certainly would have to do with the coin being of low grade billon and weight compared to earlier issues, after a series of monetary devaluations. (In modern times the word seems to have got other meanings, not all of them suitable to repeat here .)

In any event, it is a very nice coin, and so are the Calais groats from @Spence and @JohnConduitt!

I will start the 1410s with this 2 groot coin from the County of Flanders (Burgundian Netherlands) that was minted during the reign of John the Fearless between December 1416 and April 1418 in Ghent; de Pas 10,26 and Boudeau 2249. The color does not look quite so "silvery" because the fineness is only 0.400.



Obv: Tournament helmet above the shields of Burgundy and Flanders. IOhS:DVX:BVRG:Z:COMeS:FLANDRIe
Rev: Cross pattee with alternating lilies and lions in the angles. + mOneTA:nOVA:COmeTIS:FLAnDRIe

Amazing condition on that coin!

That's interesting. If this was a Roman coin, I imagine it'd be called billon. Presumably, they could just have made it smaller, given it's 32mm. But then it might not be much of a 'groot'.

In England, they were happy to go small.

Henry V Type 5 Halfpenny, 1413-1422

London. 12mm, 0.44g. Crowned facing bust, annulets by hair; HENRIC REX ANGL. Long cross pattee dividing the legend, with three pellets in each angle; CIVITAS LONDON (S 1795).

The weight is under 0.49g, which means this is after the 1412 coin reform. The two annulets by the crown make it Henry V.

The dealer described it as a Class D halfpenny but also described the annulets as 'broken', which as far as I can tell, should make it Class C (Withers Type 5a; S 1794). But the annulets on these always seem to look broken... http://www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk/pi...a/index.html

I agree at that purity (under 50%) we would call it billon. However, in the coinage decrees, a certain set of gold coins were specified, a certain set of "silver" denominations (2, 1 and 1/2 groot often at decreasing purity) were specified, and then "black" (dark?) coins containing less than 10% silver at the lowest denominations.
The 19th century numismatists who made the first catalogs kept these terms, and appear to have set a precedent for that part of the world.

I'll make it 3 Low Countries coins for this decade, with this double gros of the Duchy of Brabant. Between January 1410 and March 1411, about 2.5 million of these were struck at the Leuven mint, and some unknown additional number into early 1412. So the date range is a bit over 2 years for this coin. Witte 435. 30 mm, 4.0 g.

It was an interesting time in this part of Europe. Flanders (my first coin for this decade) had already come under Burgundian rule, and hence was allied with England. Brabant was still and independent Duchy and an ally of France. Duke Antoine, under whose authority this coin was struck, died at the Battle of Agincourt fighting on the French side, in August 1415.
The County of Holland (@spence's coin) was ruled by the Duke of Bavaria, whose brother was Bishop of Liege, a bit to the southeast.
By 1433, both Brabant and Holland would emerge from succession squabbles under Burgundian rule, too, with Philip "the Good" of Burgundy consolidating nearly the entire region into what became known as the Burgundian Netherlands.



Obv: Crouching, helmeted lion left. AnThOnIVS DeI GRA DX BRABAnTIe. LOVAn' in exergue.
Rev: Long cross pattee. MOneTA DVC BRABAnTIe eT LIMB

The Second Emission on these French Gros dit "Florette" was authorized on October 21, 1417 AD and it would be a little more than four months before the Third Emission began on March 7th, 1418 AD. We gone back and forth on these a bit, but for the purposes of my collection, I'm inclined to call this one as datable to 1417. I'm fine with those who prefer to expand this to the range of 1417 to 1418 AD.

In any case, it was minted in Rouen and is attributed as Duplessy 387a and Roberts 2882. I love the letterform for the letter K on this coin.