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I received a mail from a researcher asking me if I knew essentially what the tarelares, it seems currencies mentioned in the inventory after death of Guillaume Dufay (fifteenth century).
Here is my answer, which also details the research (Short). I had to write in English, but to spare you the mistakes of language, I retranslated it here in the other direction:
"I used a particular search in Google Book Search by selecting a list of books around numismatics (function "My Library", 169 lbs currently )
[Rq: the library in question is directly searchable on this blog in the right column].
In searching for " tarelares ", it falls on the book Searches on coins of the counts of Namur , p. 110-111 , and the word is also used elsewhere (p. 106 et seq.).
We learn, for example
"Seventeen tarelares equaled then 18 sheets of Flanders." (P. 106)
"Smith, a merchant and citizen of this city for the term of three years, beginning at Christmas next.
Dupont took office August 4, 1423, and manufactured from that date until 26 June 1424: 1 Duplicates
big appointed tarelares 5 denier Aloi and 4 in 2 denier in size to the mark;
2 Half-denier tarelares 4 4 grains of Aloi and 7 under a penny
size;
3 ° to 4 grain moths double D'Aloia and 12 in size.
Double moths were called double wihots, 18 these parts were being made for a tarelare or Blaffart. "(p. 107)
But at first glance the author (Reiner Chalon) found no specimen of this coin, for he writes (p. 114) "In 1425, 6 tarelares Namur are taken for 7 plates
Flanders. It is impossible to suppose that these pieces were of the same type. "
(the plate is also called double major).
Maybe someone there more info on these tarelares? I don ' have currently no more recent literature (the book dates from 1860) on these currencies.
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