Angelot d'or - Henri VI

Henri VI's claim to the French throne rested on the Treaty of Troyes (1420), which disinherited the Dauphin and named the English king heir to France. The Angelot was struck in this political vacuum — an English king minting French royal gold — and circulated primarily in the English-controlled northern territories during the height of the Hundred Years' War. Paris itself was under Anglo-Burgundian occupation when these were produced.

Within two years of this issue, Joan of Arc's campaigns began unraveling English control of France. Surviving examples were almost certainly in circulation when Orléans was relieved in 1429.