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1 Groschen Tournois
| Issuer | Aachen, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1420 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | ·SES 8 KAROL 8 MA G`o IPERATO`* |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Aachen's groschen tournois issues of the early fifteenth century reflect the city's deliberate imitation of French tournois coinage — a practice widespread among Rhenish mints competing for regional trade acceptance. As a free imperial city with minting rights confirmed under successive emperors, Aachen enjoyed unusual monetary autonomy, and the tournois format was adopted precisely because the type circulated without friction across the Low Countries trade networks.
The Menadier 117 classification places this among a cluster of issues tied to Aachen's active minting period before the city's privileges came under renewed imperial scrutiny in the later fifteenth century.