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Gros tournois à l'O rond (faux d'époque ou imitation ?) - c. 1280-1290
N° v18_1001
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Gros (Grosso) A large silver coin of european nations.
Griffin Greek mythological being with a body of a lion, wings and head of an eagle.
Incuse Stamping a recessed image into the surface of a coin as opposed to image rise in relief.

Gros tournois or groat, pl. gros tournois or groats
Silver (medieval) West European coin
Guinea, pl. guineas ...

AR Gros; AR Gros Tournois; AR Sesino; Billon Denier; Billon Obole
Innocent VI
Etiene d'Aubert ...

The common division was the obol or obolo (1/2) (mealha in Portugal) and the multiple (4) was the gros in France, croat in Spain, the grosso in Italy, the groat in England, and the groschen in Germany, Bohemia and Poland.

It was not until the fourteenth century that other denominations were struck; silver gros and half-gros made their appearance, ...

Silver Gros an Gene.
Denomination: Silver Gros An Gene.
Reference: Weiller 154. Probst 184.
Size: 27.5 x 28.0 mm. Weight: 2.75 grams.

The first English groats were copied from the Continental gros tournois, and were issued during the reign of Edward I in 1279. This first issue of groats weighed 89 grains, representing a penny weight of 22.

Crusader States, Cyprus, Peter/Pierre II, 1369-1382, AR Gros (3.9g). King enthroned facing, shield with rampant lion to rt./Cross and crosslets, Famagusta mint, Die P; CLC 45:3-6var (rev. unrecorded).

gold gold standard Greek coins Gresham's Law gros tournois groschen guilder
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Hammered coinage Heads or Tails heller History of coins hyperpyron ...

Monaco
Centime; Decime; Denier; Denier Tournois; Doppia; Double Tournois; Ecu; Franc; Gros; New Franc; Patacchi; Scudo; Sol; Tallero; Tournois;
Mongolia
Mongo; Mung; Tugrik; Tukhrik; ...

*27528 Netherlands. Deventer. 1471. AR Gros . Quartered arms on long cross, cccc lxxi/Eagle over shield of Devener. Frey-141, vdC-17. aF/F. $300 [image] ...

See also: Silver, Coin, Denier, Revers, Issued

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