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Denier - Andrew I stylized head
| Issuer | Viscounty of Brosse |
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| Year | 1305-1347 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ A+D` +AS VICECOM (Translation: Andrew of Chauvigny, viscount...) |
| Reverse description | The reverse bears a stylized frontal bust of the viscount Andrew I in a highly schematic, almost abstract rendering characteristic of provincial feudal hammered coinage of the early 14th century. The figure is depicted with a rounded head and rudimentary facial features, set within the coin's field. The surrounding legend BRVCIE identifies the issuing lordship of Brosse. The strike is weak in areas, and the flan exhibits the typical irregularity of hand-hammered billon deniers of this period. |
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The Viscounty of Brosse, a minor lordship in the Creuse region of central France, exercised the right of monetary emission through much of the fourteenth century — a privilege that many comparable lordships were actively losing to Capetian and then Valois consolidation during precisely this period. Andrew I managed to retain it.
Dy féodales 731 is among the thinner-documented issues in Duplessy's feudal series, with surviving specimens sparse enough that die linkage studies remain incomplete.