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FRANCE, Royal. Louis IX (Saint Louis). 1226–1270. AR Gros tournois (26mm, 4.03 g, 9h). + BHDICTV SIT HOmЄ DHI nRI DЄI IhV.XPI/+ LVDOVICVS REX, cross pattée; triple pellet stops / + • TVRONVS CIVIS, châtel tournois; border of twelve lis; star above second V in TVRONVS. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe, 258 var. (no pellet before T in TVRONVS); Van Hengel L*7.02; Duplessy 190E; Ciani 180; Roberts 2452. Iridescent toning. Near EF.
From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Andy Singer.
Issued by St Louis in 1266 the gros tournois was 'the first heavy silver coin to be struck north of the Alps, and was nearly a gram heavier than the grosso introduced thirteen years earlier at Rome. It was of 'pure' silver, i.e. of argent-le-roi (958/1000 fine), weighed 4.22g, and was worth exactly 12 denier tournois or one sou (solidus). Its design was basically that of the denier, but the chatel side was surrounded with a border of 12 ovoids each containing a fleur de lis - the number was perhaps intended to indicate the value and the cross side by a religious invocation.' Grierson, pp. 114-115.
From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Andy Singer.
Issued by St Louis in 1266 the gros tournois was 'the first heavy silver coin to be struck north of the Alps, and was nearly a gram heavier than the grosso introduced thirteen years earlier at Rome. It was of 'pure' silver, i.e. of argent-le-roi (958/1000 fine), weighed 4.22g, and was worth exactly 12 denier tournois or one sou (solidus). Its design was basically that of the denier, but the chatel side was surrounded with a border of 12 ovoids each containing a fleur de lis - the number was perhaps intended to indicate the value and the cross side by a religious invocation.' Grierson, pp. 114-115.