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Grand Gold Ecu with knight - Gaston X of Grailly
| Issuer | Béarn, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1436-1472 |
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| Value | 1 Grand Gold Ecu |
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| Obverse description | Armored knight on horseback advancing to right, the rider wearing a crowned helmet and full plate armor, brandishing a sword raised in the right hand, the caparisoned horse depicted in full gallop. The equestrian effigy is set within a beaded inner circle adorned with ornamental cusped trefoils and small heraldic devices in the field. The circumferential Latin legend runs between two concentric beaded borders. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Gaston X of Grailly, Count of Foix and Viscount of Béarn, operated one of the most financially assertive lordships in southern France — minting gold coinage at a weight well above the French royal écu to assert both parity with and independence from the Crown. Béarn's ancient custom of fiscal autonomy, rooted in the Fors de Béarn, gave the counts legal cover to maintain their own monetary system long after most French feudal mints had been absorbed or suppressed.
The absence of a Dy féodales reference number suggests this type remains unclassified or only tentatively attributed in Duplessy's corpus — a meaningful gap for a piece of this weight.