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Gros de roi dit 'de Jacques Cœur' 1ère émission - Charles VII
| Issuer | Royal Mint of France (Atelier de Montpellier) |
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| Year | 1447 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Jacques Cœur, the merchant-financier who rebuilt French royal finances after the Hundred Years' War, administered the Montpellier mint directly — and this gros carries his name precisely because contemporaries associated the coin's sudden monetary rehabilitation with his influence over the royal treasury. The attribution is informal but has stuck for six centuries.
The 1447 emission predates Cœur's spectacular fall by just two years: he was arrested in 1449 on charges largely fabricated by creditors who owed him money, including several members of the royal court. His assets, mints included, were seized by the crown.