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1/2 Gold Ecu - Charles VIII crowns
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 1483-1498 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (1483-1498) - La Rochelle: dot 9th - ND (1483-1498) - Paris: dot 18th - ND (1483-1498) - Rouen: dot 15th - ND (1483-1498) - Toulouse: dot 5th - |
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Charles VIII inherited the throne at thirteen and spent much of his reign consumed by his Italian ambitions — the 1494 invasion that briefly made him master of Naples upended the peninsula's balance of power and drained the royal treasury at a pace the mint struggled to match. The demi-écu d'or was not a new denomination under Charles, but his issues continued the weight reduction trend his predecessors had already set in motion, reflecting chronic pressure on bullion reserves rather than any deliberate monetary reform.
The .963 fineness places these among the purer gold issues of late Valois France, a standard maintained more by convention than by fiscal generosity.