Franc on foot - Louis I of Anjou 2nd type

Louis I of Anjou was invested with Provence in 1382 following the death of Queen Joanna I, who had adopted him as her heir specifically to keep the county from falling to Charles of Durazzo. He died in September 1384 at Bisceglie in southern Italy, still fighting to claim the Neapolitan throne she had also bequeathed him, which brackets this issue tightly to those two years of contested authority.

The franc-à-pied type was a direct adaptation of Valois royal coinage, a deliberate signal of legitimacy from a count who was simultaneously pressing dynastic claims in two directions at once.