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Blanc with sun - Charles VIII KAROLVS REX FRANCORVM
| Issuer | Kingdom of France |
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| Year | 1483-1498 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Mintage | ND (1483-1498) - dot 13th |
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Charles VIII inherited the throne at thirteen and spent much of his reign consumed by the Italian campaigns launched in 1494 — an adventure that drained the royal treasury and forced repeated monetary adjustments. The blanc with sun was a workhorse denomination of late Valois coinage, its silver content already debased well below earlier issues of the type.
The LP#560 variety designation here suggests a die or mint variant not fully catalogued by Ciani, which accounts for the absent reference number. Such gaps are not unusual for provincial French billon of this period, where mint output across dozens of active ateliers outpaced systematic documentation by centuries.