Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Denier - Frederick III Neufchâteau, mounted knight
| Issuer | Lorraine, Duchy of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1251-1303 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Pound |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A centrally placed upright sword oriented vertically in the field, flanked on each side by a pellet, serving as a heraldic device associated with the lordship of Neufchâteau. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, around which the Latin legend NEVCHATL is arranged, identifying the issuing authority. The lettering is characteristic of 13th-century Lorrainer epigraphy, with individual characters of varying regularity reflecting the hand-struck nature of the flan. The overall composition is austere and emblematic, consistent with feudal denier coinage of the region. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Frederick III ruled Lorraine during a period when the duchy was caught between the competing pressures of the French crown and the Holy Roman Empire, a tension that shaped its coinage as much as its politics. The denier series attributed to his reign is identified primarily through die study rather than documentary evidence — no mint records survive to confirm precise dates or volumes of production within his fifty-two year rule.
Flon's classification of this type as number 31 reflects decades of scholarly effort to sequence Lotharingian deniers that contemporary sources never bothered to catalog.