Denier - Hugh XII

Hugh XII ruled Angoulême during a period of sustained Capetian pressure on the great southern lordships, and his coinage reflects the shrinking monetary autonomy of a county increasingly absorbed into the French royal orbit. His father Hugh XI had submitted to Alphonse de Poitiers in 1252; by the time Hugh XII died in 1282, Angoulême had effectively passed into the Capetian sphere through inheritance. These deniers circulated in a region that would formally come to the French crown shortly after.

The Dy féodales reference 954 places this squarely within the later Lusignan-affiliated Angoulême sequence, struck at a weight already showing the progressive debasement common to mid-thirteenth-century feudal silver across Aquitaine.