France, Provincial. Provence (comté). temp. Bérenger V–Charles I d’Anjou, 1209-1266 AD. Marseilles mint, Struck after 1218

AR Gros marseillais – 6 Coronats, 1.69g (20mm, 4h). +COMЄS: PVINCIЄ, head left / + CIVITΛS MΛ(horizontal S)(horizontal S)IL, castle with crenelated turrets and gateway, and two towers and central cross on pelleted staffPedigree: From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Charles H. Wolfe, III, 1992.References: Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe 265; Rolland 17 and 24; Duplessey, Féodales 1614; Poey d’Avant 3955 (Charles I).Grade: Deeply toned. Good VF. An attractive Medieval portrait coin. (wc1078)