Denier - Rudolph of Coucy Marsal

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.