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    The tornesel, tornesol, or tornese was a silver coin of Europe in the Late Middle Ages and the early modern era. It took its name from the denier tournois...
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    Frederick II introduced the augustalis, which was a quarter of an oncia. The tornesel, tornesol, or tornese was a silver coin of Europe in the Late Middle Ages...
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    descriptions were based on the conversion of 1 bezant = 20 groats = 133+1⁄3 tornesel. It was after the French silver coin had circulated in England that an...
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    1806 • Two Sicilies established 8 December 1816 Population • c. 1600 10,000,000 Currency Tarì Tornesel Ducat Neapolitan lira Cavallo Today part of Italy...
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    Medieval tornesel coin die from Frankfurt am Main...
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    name of the silver coins, itself also not existing as a single unit; the tornesel (Italian: tornese) was the name of the copper coins, which were worth half...
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    Wars • French invasion 21 January January 21, 1799 • Sicilian invasion 13 June June 13, 1799 Currency Tornesel, Neapolitan carlino Today part of Italy...
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    while yet another one had the "Carolingian temple" already used in the tornesels by Louis the Pious. After the reconquest of Bari Louis settled in Benevento...
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  • 24 kilograms (53 lb) of silver coins and ingots. The 3141 coins are all Tornesel, from the late 13th and early 14th century, thus making up the largest...
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    Emperor Charles IV owed the deceased Count Otto, he assigned 1½ old large tornesel from some water or land tolls. Often to such grants this clause was added:...
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    Emperor Charles IV owed the deceased Count Otto, he assigned 1½ old large tornesel from some water or land tolls. Often to such grants this clause was added:...
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    to have a minimum mesh size of 25.5 mm (1 inch), the width of a silver tornesel coin. There was also a size minimum for caught fish.: 189  The fish on...
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    requirement was that the persons named would have paid up to that point 220 tornesels (silver Groschen). If they could not pay off the corn rental rights within...
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