Denier - Louis VI Orleans mint

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.