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Denier Tournois - Charles II of Navarre
| Issuer | Evreux, County of |
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| Year | 1354-1378 |
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| Diameter | 17 mm |
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| Obverse description | A plain cross pattée occupies the central field, with pellets or small ornamental stops positioned in the angles between the cross arms. The surrounding circular legend reads KAROLVS REX, identifying the issuer as Charles, King. The entire design is characteristic of the denier tournois type, struck by hand with irregular flan edges typical of medieval hammered coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Charles II — "Charles the Bad" — was one of the most destructive political actors of fourteenth-century France, playing the Valois crown against the English at every opportunity during the opening decades of the Hundred Years War. He held the County of Évreux as a French peer while simultaneously pursuing claims to the French throne itself, and was implicated in the murder of the Constable of France in 1354 — the very year this coinage begins. His denier tournois mimicked the royal type deliberately, a small assertion of parity with the Valois he conspired against.