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Franc on foot - Louis I of Anjou 1st type
| Issuer | Provence, County of |
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| Year | 1382-1384 |
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| Currency | Livre |
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| Reverse description | An ornate cross fleurée at center, its terminals terminating in fleurs-de-lis, with a pellet-in-rosette at the central intersection. Crowns appear in each of the four angles of the cross. The entire device is set within an angled tetralobe (quadrilobe) border, with fleurs-de-lis occupying the spandrels between the lobes and the outer circumference. The circumferential legend in uncial lettering encircles the design. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Louis I of Anjou was Count of Provence only by virtue of his adoption by Joanna I of Naples in 1380, and he spent virtually his entire tenure as count attempting to make good on her bequest of the Neapolitan throne — a campaign that consumed his treasury and ultimately killed him in 1384 near Bari. This coin was struck in that compressed two-year window of active Provençal governance before he departed for Italy, modeling the franc à pied directly on the royal French type his brother Charles V had established in 1365.