The Blanc of Charles VII emerged from the monetary ordinance of 1435, the same year the Treaty of Arras reconciled the French crown with Burgundy — effectively ending the Anglo-Burgundian alliance that had kept the English entrenched in northern France for two decades. The crown's renewed political footing made monetary reform both possible and urgent; decades of competing issues, debasements, and English occupation coinages had left French currency in a fractured state.
Duplessy 478 covers a type produced across multiple mints, and attribution to a specific workshop depends on the mint mark.
The Blanc of Charles VII emerged from the monetary ordinance of 1435, the same year the Treaty of Arras reconciled the French crown with Burgundy — effectively ending the Anglo-Burgundian alliance that had kept the English entrenched in northern France for two decades. The crown's renewed political footing made monetary reform both possible and urgent; decades of competing issues, debasements, and English occupation coinages had left French currency in a fractured state.
Duplessy 478 covers a type produced across multiple mints, and attribution to a specific workshop depends on the mint mark.