FRANCE, Provincial. Provence (comté). temp. Bérenger V–Charles I d'Anjou. 1209-1266. AR Gros marseillais – 6 Coronats (20mm, 1.69 g, 4h). Marseilles mint. Struck after 1218. + COMЄS : PVINCIЄ, head left / + CIVITΛS MΛ(horizontal S)(horizontal S)IL, castle with crenelated turrets and gateway, and two towers and central cross on pelleted staff. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe 265; Rolland 17 and 24; Duplessey, Féodales 1614; Poey d'Avant 3955 (Charles I). Deeply toned. Good VF. An attractive Medieval portrait coin.
From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Charles H. Wolfe, III, 1992.