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Engrogne with crowned lion - Philip III
| Issuer | Burgundy, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1419-1432 |
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| Diameter | 22 mm |
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| Reverse description | A bold cross pattée with slightly splayed arms fills the central field, its extremities nearly reaching the inner beaded circle. The arms of the cross create four equal quadrants in the field. A circular Latin legend in Gothic lettering surrounds the design between the inner beaded circle and the outer rim, identifying the mint of Engrogne. |
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| Mintage | ND (1419-1432) |
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Philip III — "the Good" — inherited Burgundy in 1419 following the assassination of his father John the Fearless on the bridge at Montereau, a killing in which the French dauphin's men were directly implicated. That rupture pushed Philip into a formal alliance with the English, sealed at Troyes in 1420, which recognized Henry V as heir to the French crown. The billon coinage of his early reign circulated through a duchy that was, politically, effectively at war with its nominal French overlord.
The engrogne type takes its name from the Burgundian dialect word for the snarling or growling expression — a detail of the lion's rendering that contemporaries found distinctive enough to coin a name for it.