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Écu d'or à la couronne - Charles VII 2e type
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 1435 |
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| Value | 1 Gold Ecu |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the crowned arms of France — a shield semé of fleurs-de-lis — surmounted by an ornate royal crown with foliate finials. The shield is accosted on the left by a small coronet and on the right by a fleur-de-lis, both within a beaded inner circle. The circumferential legend in Gothic lettering reads KAROLVS DEI GRACIA FRANCORVM REX, separated by cross stops, running between the inner and outer borders of the coin. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Charles VII introduced this second-type écu in 1435, the same year the Treaty of Arras ended the Burgundian alliance with England — a diplomatic breakthrough that fundamentally shifted the balance of the Hundred Years' War in France's favor. The crown's finances had been erratic for decades, and maintaining a stable gold coinage was as much a political act as an economic one.
The shift from the first type involved adjustments to the crown's rendering above the shield, a detail that allowed contemporaries — and allows collectors now — to distinguish issues across Charles's long reign. Duplessy's classification separates these precisely by crown type.