File talk:Louis7seal.jpg

Unlikely description

@Acoma: hi. The inscription reads "et Dux Aquitanorum", "and Duke of Aquitaine". Hard to believe it's a seal. I'd say the reverse of a medal or coin with the royal title on the obverse. Please check. Thanks, Arminden (talk) 12:08, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Source & inscription clarified

CLARIFIED! Our colleague, Andrew Dalby has indicated to me the exact source of the image and I did some extra research. Here is the complete information.

• Source: Thomas Andrew Archer and Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. The Crusades: The Story of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York & T. Fisher Unwin, London (1894)
• image on this page
• full caption here: p. xxiii, fn. 26
• As about two-sided royal seals, here is a good explanation for their use in the High Middle Ages. So here we have only half of a two-sided (or double?) royal seal, containing only the inscription indicating the lesser title: "et Dux Aquitanorum", lit. "and Duke of Aquitaine". Arminden (talk) 00:56, 30 October 2020 (UTC)