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Blanc with crown of Provence - Louis XII 2nd type
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 1501-1515 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A large plain cross pattee divides the field into four quarters, each containing alternately a small crown and a fleur-de-lis arranged in the angles. The design is characteristic of the late medieval French billon coinage tradition. The legend in uncial Latin is contained between two beaded circles running to the coin's edge. |
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| Mintage | ND (1501-1515) T |
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Louis XII inherited the claim to Naples through the Angevins and spent much of his reign trying to hold it — the crown of Provence in this type's name reflects that dynastic thread directly. The Neapolitan ambitions collapsed definitively after the Battle of Cerignola in 1503, where Spanish forces under Gonzalo de Córdoba ended French control of the kingdom for good. This coin continued striking for another decade regardless, the political fiction of the claim outlasting any practical grip on the territory.