2 Gold Ecus - Charles in the name of Charles VI

This coin derives directly from the Treaty of Troyes, signed May 1420, by which Charles VI — mentally incapacitated and effectively controlled by the Burgundian faction — disinherited his own son and recognized Henry V of England as heir to the French throne. The monetary provisions of that treaty required coinage struck in Charles VI's name to continue, maintaining a fiction of French royal legitimacy while English power consolidated in the north.

The dauphin, later Charles VII, struck competing issues from his own reduced territory. Two parallel royal coinages circulated simultaneously, each claiming legitimacy.