Coin is 26 mm in diameter and weighs 2.86 grams. It was sold as a Portuguese coin, but looking at the numista catalog the closest I can find are 15th century blancs from France. Anyone have any idea of what the coin is?
Цитата: "Arusak"Any ideas? Maybe someone could post this on the French forum. I think I see fleur-de-lis on the back so it would have to be a French coin.
Not necessarily!
Many non-French coins had fleurs de lys on them as heraldic motifs; the fleur de lys was never an official symbol of France as a nation state, but was used as a symbol of the Capetian dynasty and it's branches/claimants.
That's why we can see them on coins from countries such as Spain (1700-1931, 1975-), and Naples/Two Sicilies (until 1860). Both were ruled by monarchs from house of Bourbon, a branch of the Capetian line.
