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Denier mansois
| Issuer | County of Provence (French States) |
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| Year | 1246-1266 |
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| Currency | Livre |
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| Obverse lettering | + K COMES PROVINCIE. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
Charles I of Anjou acquired Provence through his 1246 marriage to Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Ramon Berenguer IV, and immediately set about asserting monetary authority over a county that had circulated a patchwork of competing feudal issues. The denier mansois — a type named for the money of Le Mans, imported into southern coinage practice — became one of his instruments for that consolidation. Charles's ambitions extended well beyond Provence; by 1266 he had seized the Kingdom of Sicily from the Hohenstaufen, and Provençal coin production increasingly served those broader Italian campaigns.