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Denier Tournois - Louis VIII / Louis IX TVRONVS
| Issuer | Royal Mint of France |
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| Year | 1223-1245 |
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| Currency | Livre tournois (987-1795) |
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| Reverse description | Stylised representation of the Chateau des Tours (Castle of Tours), depicted frontally with a central tower flanked by two lateral turrets, all rising from a horizontal baseline. The castle motif is rendered in the characteristic schematic style of Tournois coinage, with the turrets surmounted by pointed finials and the structure separated from the surrounding legend by a beaded inner circle. The circular legend + TVRONVS CIVI appears in Latin capital letters around the periphery, identifying the city of Tours as the place of issue. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The denier tournois takes its name from Tours, where the Abbey of Saint-Martin had minted its own silver deniers for centuries before the Capetian crown absorbed the type. Louis VIII began striking royal tournois in 1223, effectively nationalizing a coin the French public already trusted. The type outlasted both him and his son by generations, circulating across the Angevin territories and becoming a de facto benchmark denomination for commercial transactions throughout the 13th century.
The Dy royales 187 attribution covers a production span across two reigns, making precise die attribution difficult without direct reference to Duplessy's supplementary die studies.