Double Tournois - Hugh III

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.