coin
- Museum number
- 1935,0401.6536
- Description
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Silver coin. (whole)
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Aquitanian castle with embattled towers, furnished with three pellets and gateway, tefoil of pellets below. Tressure of nine arches containing leaves. (reverse)
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Cross pattee within inner circle. (obverse)
- Regnal date
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(1307-1327)
- Production date
- 1307-1327
- Dimensions
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Weight: 1.72 grammes
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The coin is evidently the maille blanche, which in 1326 Edward II ordered to be struck at the Tower. That was after he had first relinquished the duchy to his son and then - when his wife was found guilty of treason and his son refused to return to England - resumed the government again. Legally he was no longer Duke of Aquitaine so that title, that formed the reverse legend of the first maille blanche, had to be omitted. The empty space was then filled with another of Edward's titles, the Irish one, not relevant but adequate (Elias 1984, 60).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Acquisition notes
- Bought by Clarke-Thornhill for 6/-.
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- 1935,0401.6536
