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Denier - Rudolph of Coucy Marsal
| Issuer | Bishopric of Metz |
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| Year | 1388-1415 |
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| Currency | Denier (929-1505) |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, two heraldic shields displayed side by side: the arms of Coucy (left) and Harcourt (right), rendered in low relief typical of late medieval hammered coinage. The shields occupy the central field in a symmetrical arrangement. A circular Latin legend surrounds the inner circle, contained between the beaded border and the coin's edge. The overall design reflects the heraldic conventions of the episcopal mint of Metz under Bishop Rudolph of Coucy. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Rudolph of Coucy served as Bishop of Metz during one of the most fractious periods in the bishopric's monetary history, when rival lords and ecclesiastical mints throughout Lorraine were producing increasingly debased small silver in open competition. At 0.32g, this denier sits at the lighter end of what the bishopric was producing, consistent with the progressive fineness reductions documented across Lotharingian ecclesiastical coinage in the decades bracketing 1400.