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Gold Ecu - Jean Ferrier
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Arles |
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| Year | 1499-1521 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | + IO:FER:ARChIEPS: ET : PS : AR ELA : ET : MON: DRA |
| Reverse description | A boldly struck floriated cross pattée with fleurs-de-lis terminating each of the four arms, the vertical shaft rising from a decorated pedestal element at its base and crown above, all set within a beaded inner circle. The four quarters formed by the cross arms each contain a curved letter C. The Latin motto legend encircles the design within the outer beaded border. |
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Jean de Ferrier served as Archbishop of Arles from 1499 until his death in 1521, a period during which French royal authority was steadily encroaching on the monetary prerogatives of ecclesiastical lordships. The archbishops of Arles held the right to strike gold coinage — a privilege increasingly contested and curtailed by the crown throughout the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, making this issue one of the last meaningful exercises of that seigneurial right in the region.
Drujon de Beaulieu's documentation of Provençal féodales places this type among the rarest ecclesiastical gold issues of the Midi.