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Yippee....I just bought this Gros Tournois of Louis IX (1226 - 1270)
It's a prototype of all Grosses or Groschens through the medieval Europe.
Can anyone help me with the legend in an outer ring ?
""BNDICTV SIT NOME DNI NR DEI HV XPI."" What does it mean ?



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Richard Doty, in his entry on the gros tournois in his "Encyclopedic Dictionary of Numismatics", describes it merely a "pious religious legend" without offering a translation. Your "HV" is actually "IEV", I believe. As near as I can work out, the abbreviated Latin would expand out to: Benedictum sit nomen Domini noster Dei Iesus Christus - "Blessed be the name of the Lord our God, Jesus Christ".

"Sit nomen Domini benedictum" (blessed be the name of the Lord) went on to become the standard reverse formula used on many of the larger French silver coins right up to the revolution.
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Thank you Sap, you are so reliable.
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