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Denier - Charles of France KROLVS COMES
| Issuer | La Marche, County of |
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| Year | 1315-1322 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by a bold, plain cross pattée with wide arms extending nearly to the inner beaded border, a characteristic feature of French feudal deniers of the early fourteenth century. A small annulet or pellet appears in one quadrant of the cross. The surrounding legend, reading ✠ KROLVS : COMES, is rendered in Gothic Lombardic characters and separated from the cross by a plain inner circle. The coin is struck on an irregular flan typical of hammered medieval coinage, exhibiting slight weakness at the margins. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Charles of Valois held La Marche as an appanage granted by his brother Philip IV, and these deniers were struck during a period when appanage coinage rights were both jealously guarded and increasingly contested by the royal administration. Charles was arguably the most powerful French prince of his generation — a perpetual candidate for various European thrones who never actually took one — and his coinages across multiple lordships reflect the breadth of his territorial holdings rather than any unified monetary policy.
The Dyroselle féodales reference 982 places this firmly within the established corpus of Marchois feudal issues, though surviving examples are sparsely documented in major collection records.