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Gold Chaise - Edward of Woodstock
| Issuer | Aquitaine, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1362-1372 |
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| Value | 1 Gold Chair (3) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | DEVS IVDEX IVSTVS FORTIS Z PACIENS B (Translation: God is a righteous, strong and patient judge.) |
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Edward of Woodstock — the "Black Prince" — was granted the Principality of Aquitaine by his father Edward III in 1362, and with it came the right to strike his own coinage. The chaise d'or takes its name from the throne depicted on the type, a design borrowed directly from French royal issues, a deliberate assertion of parity with the Valois kings whose territory the English crown was contesting. Edward's administration of Aquitaine proved expensive and ultimately ruinous; his Castilian campaign and the brutal sack of Limoges in 1370 drained the principality's finances and alienated the Gascon lords who had initially welcomed him.
He returned to England in 1371, never to hold Aquitaine again, dying before his father in 1376.