Double Denier Provencal - Louis II / Louis III

Louis II of Anjou, Count of Provence from 1384, spent much of his reign pursuing a dynastic claim to the Kingdom of Naples — a campaign that drained Provençal finances repeatedly and forced local monetary compromises. His son Louis III inherited both the county and the Neapolitan ambition in 1417, continuing the same monetary policy with little interruption. The double denier Provençal thus spans two reigns without meaningful change in type, which explains why attributing individual pieces to one count or the other depends entirely on subtle die characteristics rather than any formal recoinage.