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

And one more dang of Jani Beg Khan (my last one for this decade from the Saray al-Jadida mint) year 750AH (1350). Sagdeeva 243




I think I have coins from this decade for a couple of more posts, will do them later:)

@grin, how about if you post your last coins from this decade today so that we can drop back to the 1340s starting tomorrow am?

...and one more dang of 751AH of Jani Beg Khan.

An interesting thing that the mint was read as Sarai al-Jadidah (by Fraehn) or Khwarizm (by Fedorov-Davidov and Sagdeeva). On Zeno such coins are at Khwarizm, but the prevailing opinion now that reading as Khwarizm is not correct




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It's tricky to read anything on some of these. The letters run in seemingly random directions and merge with the design. Quite a lot isn't even on the flan.

The 1340s is still quite a big decade for Golden Horde coinage, so I'll break it up a bit with this Black Death-era English penny.

Edward III 3rd Coinage, Class 2, Long Cross Penny, 1344-1351

Tower. Silver, 18.5mm, 1.3g. Crowned bust, Lombardic Ns and annulet stops; +EDWA R ANGL DNS HYB (Edward King of England, Lord (Dominus) of Ireland). Reverse I; long cross and three pellets in each quarter, Lombardic Ns; CIVI-TAS-LON-DON (City of London) (S 1544).

It's the name given to decorative capital (uppercase) letters used to start paragraphs in medieval books. For some reason, the N does look like it's lowercase, as does the H, which would explain IOhAnNES https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/...tal_type.jpg

@JohnC, thanks for that explanation.

None of my Lorraine coins are attributable to a single year. This plaque (2 gros) is the closest, with a date range of 1346-1348. Duke Raoul of Lorraine was killed in the Battle of Crecy in 1346 (as was Count Louis I of Flanders, and a few other notable nobles of this era). His son, John was only 6 months old, so his mother Marie of Blois served as regent until she remarried in 1348, and the regency was taken on by someone else. 28 mm, 3.8 g., Boudeau 1467



Obv: Quartered arms of Lorraine-Blois inside a quadrilobe with a small crown in 3 of the lobes. IOHANNES DVX MARCHIO DE LOTHORIGIA
Rev: Short cross pattee with crown in each angle. MARIE DVCHESS MANBOURS DE LA DVCHI

Great coins so far today!

Here is a French Gros ala Couronne that can be dated to 1340 AD (4th Emission). It was issued on behalf of Philip VI and is attributed as Duplessy 262C and Roberts 2473. It was a COVID pick-up for me.

Thanks for continuing to maintain the scorecard @j1m.

I have one more coin that can be attributed to a single year this decade, this billon half gros of the Duchy of Brabant that was issued in 1343. Witte 348



Obv: Shield with quartered arms of Brabant-Limburg inside polylobe. MONETA NOVA BRABANTIE
Rev: Cross pattee intersecting the interior legend. (Exterior) I LOT BRAB LIMB DVX AC MARCIO (Interior) SACRI IMPERII

John's title translates roughly as "Duke of Lotharingia, Brabant, Limburg and Marquis of the Holy Empire" which may seem confusing since we all know there was a place farther south (Duchy of Lorraine) where the dukes also used the title "Duke of Lotharingia."
Lorraine was originally (10th-12th c.) called "Upper Lotharingia," and the Low Countries were called "Lower Lotharingia." Over time, the "upper" was dropped, and it became known simply as Lorraine. The Low Countries fragmented into many small states (Duchies of Brabant, Limburg and Gelderland, and the counties of Flanders, Holland, Loon, Namur and so on). The dukes/duchesses of Brabant seem to have used this broader claim in their title intermittently until the 1380s.