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Denier Bourdelois - Louis XII
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 1498-1515 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A fleur-de-lis occupies the central field, rendered in the characteristic Gothic style of the period. The design is set within a beaded inner circle, with the royal legend surrounding the central motif. The coin exhibits the irregular flan and weak strike typical of hammered billon coinage of early 16th-century France. The legend reads LVDOVICVS FR REX, identifying Louis XII as King of the Franks. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Louis XII inherited a monetary system already producing the denier bourdelois, a coin so debased by the late fifteenth century that its silver content had fallen to near-symbolic levels. The type continued essentially unchanged across his reign — a deliberate policy of monetary conservatism following the upheavals of Charles VIII's Italian campaigns, which had drained French coin stocks considerably. Bourdelois deniers circulated primarily in southwestern France, where the old Bordelais monetary tradition persisted long after the region's English-era coinage had been absorbed into the French crown system.