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Denier - Edward III
| Issuer | Duchy of Aquitaine (French States) |
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| Year | 1327-1362 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | A stylised leopard passant facing left occupies the central field within a beaded inner circle. The feline figure is rendered in the flat, abbreviated manner characteristic of medieval hammered billon coinage of Aquitaine. A small annulet or pellet appears below the leopard. The surrounding legend, composed in uncial Gothic lettering, reads ED REX AnGLIE mB, identifying Edward as King of England, and runs between the inner beaded circle and the outer toothed border. |
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| Obverse lettering | ED REX AnGLIE mB (Translation: Edward, king of England...) |
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Edward III inherited Aquitaine as a feudal possession of the English crown, but his tenure there was defined less by administration than by the grinding early phases of what would become the Hundred Years' War. These deniers were struck to fulfill the practical obligation of a lord to supply small change within his territories — billon coinage for everyday transactions in Gascon markets and towns that would change hands repeatedly over the following century.
The long date range reflects the difficulty of attributing undated medieval billon precisely. Elias 107a places this type within the earlier part of Edward's Aquitainian issues, before the more elaborately administered coinage of the Black Prince period after 1362.