Denier of Bretagne - Louis XII

Louis XII inherited Brittany through his marriage to Anne of Brittany in 1499 — herself the widow of Charles VIII, who had absorbed the duchy into the French crown through their own 1491 union. The dynastic arithmetic was deliberately complex: Anne had negotiated that Brittany would revert to her heirs, not France, forcing Louis to marry her within a year of Charles's death to keep the duchy from fracturing away. These deniers were struck under that contested arrangement, with Brittany nominally autonomous while functionally French.

The LP reference remains unassigned, suggesting the type sits in a gap between the major catalogues.