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Denier Tournois with crosslet - Francis I 2nd type
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 1540-1547 |
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| Weight | 0.971 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Francis I spent much of his reign in financial crisis, funding repeated Italian campaigns and, after 1525, an enormous ransom to Charles V following his capture at Pavia. The denier tournois was the lowest denomination in everyday use, and successive debasements across the 1530s and 1540s reduced its silver content to near-negligible levels — the .059 fineness of this second type reflecting fiscal exhaustion rather than any minting reform.
The "tournois" lineage traces to the abbey of Saint-Martin de Tours, whose monetary authority was absorbed by the French crown centuries earlier. By Francis's reign the name was purely conventional.