Denier Tournois - Charles II of Navarre

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.