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| Issuer | Brittany, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1206-1213 |
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| Currency | Pound |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philip II of France formally absorbed the Duchy of Brittany into the French royal orbit following the death of Arthur I in 1203, and these deniers were struck during the contested years when French administrative control was being consolidated over a duchy that had previously looked toward the Plantagenets. Arthur's disappearance — almost certainly murdered on Philip's orders — ended Angevin claims to Brittany and left the duchy without a functioning native duke, creating the administrative vacuum under which this coinage was produced.