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Denier - Louis VI Orleans mint
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 1108-1137 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240 LP) |
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| Obverse description | Central design depicting a stylized city gate or tower motif, flanked on either side by decorative symbols. Four pellets are superimposed within the gate structure, a characteristic feature of the Orleans mint under Louis VI. The overall design is rendered in the crude, bold style typical of early Capetian hammered coinage. The circumferential legend is separated from the central type by a beaded or plain inner circle. The die work reflects the irregular, hand-engraved quality consistent with 12th-century French feudal minting practice. |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ LVDOVICVS REX I (Translation: Louis, king.) |
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Louis VI spent much of his reign fighting to bring the Île-de-France under genuine royal control, and his mint at Orléans operated within a monetary environment still heavily fragmented by baronial coinage. The Orleans denier of this period belongs to a moment when Capetian monetary authority was being reasserted rather than assumed — Louis's father Philip I had largely lost control of regional minting to local lords, and the recovery was slow and contested.
Dy royales 120 is among the scarcer documented Capetian denier types, with surviving examples frequently showing irregular flan edges consistent with the hand-cutting methods of early twelfth-century French workshops.