Denier - Robert of Dreux

Robert of Dreux, who held Châteaudun through his wife Alix de Bretagne, struck these deniers during a period when Capetian pressure on feudal minting rights was intensifying — Louis IX's monetary reforms of the 1250s were systematically curtailing the autonomous coinage of lesser lords. That this issue carries a variant from the Dy féodales type suggests die production was not rigidly controlled, consistent with a small viscounty operating on the margins of royal monetary policy.