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Denier - Hugh XI Lusignan
| Issuer | La Marche, County of |
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| Year | 1249-1260 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, the central field is adorned with an annulet flanked by two small crosses and two opposing crescents arranged symmetrically, forming a distinctive ornamental composition. The Latin legend encircles the design along the outer border. The flan exhibits the irregular contour and variable strike depth typical of mid-13th-century hammered feudal deniers. |
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| Reverse lettering | ✠ DNS · LEZINIACI (Translation: Lord of Lusignan.) |
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Hugh XI inherited the county while his father, Hugh X, was still alive — the elder Lusignan died in 1249 on Louis IX's disastrous Seventh Crusade at Damietta, leaving his son to govern a lordship already deeply entangled in Capetian politics. The Lusignan counts had spent decades oscillating between submission to the French crown and outright rebellion, and this coinage belongs to the uneasy peace that followed their final capitulation to royal authority.
The Dy féodales reference 966 places this firmly within the documented sequence of Marche deniers, a series notable for the gradual degradation of silver content across successive issues.