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Denier - Louis VI Montreuil, 5e type
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 1108-1137 |
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| Obverse description | A plain cross with splayed arms occupies the central field, contained within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding legend reads LVDEVIC REX in Latin capitals, identifying the issuer as King Louis VI of France. The lettering is distributed around the periphery in the characteristic hammered denier style of the Capetian period. The overall fabric is irregular, consistent with hand-struck medieval coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Louis VI — "the Fat" — spent much of his reign fighting to actually control the territory nominally under Capetian authority, and the Montreuil mint operated amid that chronic instability. The denier coinage of this period was chronically debased across French seigneuries, with silver content varying wildly between issues and even between dies at the same mint. Louis's monetary policy was less policy than improvisation, driven by the constant need to fund military campaigns against his own barons.
The 5e type classification under Duplessy reflects die progression work done well after the fact — contemporary users would have distinguished these coins primarily by weight and ring rather than typological sequence.