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Description: | Royal French Tournai jetton of unusual type in very fine condition, similar to examples issued under Charles VII/VIII, 1460-1500. The quatrefoils in the circles, and the use of the II form for the letter N, makes this one of the later or second series of the three circles jettons described by Mitchiner pages 210-211. However the particular legends of this example - VIVE LE ROI (May the King Live), and IOIE SANS FIN (Joy Unconfined)- suggesting a coronation - are NOT RECORDED by Mitchiner. The closest illustrated by him is the last, his no 607, which has 'Vive le Roi de Francie'/'Gettois de Tournai'. The close similarity of the lettering and other details, including the two sorts of quatrefoil used as initial marks for the legends, of the present example to this illustrated piece show that it is of the same production but a new variant type. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1460
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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