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FRANCE, Provincial. Sancerre. Étienne I . 1152-1191. AR Denier (19mm, 0.88 g, 3h). + IVLIVS CESAR •, crowned head right; six-rayed star to left / + STEPhANVS CO(ИE), cross pattée; pellet in third and fourth quarters. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe 190; Duplessey, Féodales 641 Poey d'Avant 2003; cf. Roberts 4971. Toned. VF.
From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Andy Singer, 2000.
'A curious new coinage of the second half of the twelfth century is that of the counts of Sancerre, for the name of the locality was supposed to represent a canonzised Julius Caesar and coins have profile bust identified as IVLIVS CESAR, with either SACRVM CESARIS or a count's name, around the cross on the reverse.' Grierson, p. 88.
From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Andy Singer, 2000.
'A curious new coinage of the second half of the twelfth century is that of the counts of Sancerre, for the name of the locality was supposed to represent a canonzised Julius Caesar and coins have profile bust identified as IVLIVS CESAR, with either SACRVM CESARIS or a count's name, around the cross on the reverse.' Grierson, p. 88.