Denier - John I

John I of Blois inherited the county in 1241 and spent much of his reign entangled in the complex web of Capetian vassalage politics, his coinage rights a point of periodic friction with the French crown as Louis IX methodically worked to suppress baronial minting across the realm. This denier belongs to a broad emission spanning nearly four decades, making precise dating within the type essentially impossible without die-study analysis.

Billon deniers from smaller Capetian-era counties survive in surprisingly uneven quantities — Blois issues in particular turn up more often in hoard context than in single finds.