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Double Tournois - Hugh III
| Issuer | Bishopric of Verdun |
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| Year | 1351-1361 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A bishop's crown occupies the central field, rendered in Gothic style typical of mid-14th-century episcopal coinage. Below the crown, the initials or monogram of the issuer appear in relief. The surrounding legend, executed in uncial Latin characters, identifies the issuing bishop. The flan is irregular in shape, consistent with hand-hammered production of the period. The overall design is bold and hierarchical, emphasizing the ecclesiastical authority of Hugh III, Bishop of Verdun. |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Hugh III of Poitiers served as Bishop of Verdun from 1351 to 1361, a period when the bishopric retained meaningful autonomous minting rights despite increasing Capetian and later Valois pressure on ecclesiastical coinage privileges throughout northeastern France. The Hundred Years' War had disrupted royal monetary administration badly enough that peripheral ecclesiastical mints like Verdun were left largely to their own practices during these years.
The tournois denomination itself originated at Tours but had been imitated across French ecclesiastical and feudal mints for over a century by this point — Verdun's adoption was well-established before Hugh's episcopate.