Supporting research record

Abbey of Saint-Martin tournois denier

T-FTM000814 · Outside the currency tree

Imported scoped identity; use claim relationship types and date qualifications.

A coin/specimen or inherited label alone is not an adjudicated account-unit currency.

Currency profiles

Livre tournois

Evidence & research notes 3 claims

Imported tours_abbey: local coinage. Dated evidence is not proof of an uninterrupted lifetime.

Qualified C723

Saint-Martin provides a documented local minting tradition across these periods. Continuity is a synthesis of attestations; gaps and the legal nature of early mint privilege remain.

Charles Lelong · Charles Lelong — Monnaies carolingiennes trouvées en Touraine en 1970 (1971) Citation S392 · Open source ↗

p.322; DOI 10.3406/racf.1971.1751

Source access and limitations

Handoff acceptance is not a claim that every source was independently reread.

Musée départemental breton · Musée départemental breton — Saint-Martin de Tours denier, 1150–1200 Citation S393 · Open source ↗

Inventory 2018.0.889

Source access and limitations

Handoff acceptance is not a claim that every source was independently reread.

Supported C724

A surviving abbey denier supplies the high-medieval Tours anchor.

Musée départemental breton · Musée départemental breton — Saint-Martin de Tours denier, 1150–1200 Citation S393 · Open source ↗

Inventory 2018.0.889; SCS MARTINVS / TVRONVS CIVI

Source access and limitations

Handoff acceptance is not a claim that every source was independently reread.

Supported C725

Philippe Auguste adopts the Saint-Martin type for western royal money after the Norman conquest. Parisis money coexisted. This does not establish a universal replacement in 1203.

Jean Lafaurie, 1970, pp. 117–137 · Numismatique. Des Carolingiens aux Capétiens Citation S127 · Open source ↗

p.136

Source access and limitations

Older scholarly synthesis; adopt bounded royal-adoption and relative-value claims, not approximate metallic reconstructions.