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Gros Tournois - Louis IX
| Uitgever | France |
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| Jaar | 1266-1270 |
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| Oriëntatie | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | The châtel tournois — a stylised representation of the castle of Tours — occupies the central field, surmounted by a small cross above the tower and flanked by two annulets in certain die varieties. The castle motif is enclosed within a beaded inner circle. Twelve fleurs-de-lis arranged radially fill the intervening annular zone between the inner and outer beaded borders, the uppermost lily flanked by two pellets in reference to the denomination as the last of the twelve tournois. The encircling legend reads + TVRONVS CIVIS, identifying the type's origin in Tours, all rendered in Gothic Latin script consistent with the Capetian royal monetary tradition. |
| Schrift keerzijde | Latin |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
The gros tournois was introduced by Louis IX in 1266 as France's first large silver coin of account — a direct response to the flood of Italian grossi that had come to dominate Mediterranean trade. The design was deliberately anchored to Tours, where the royal abbey of Saint-Martin had long guaranteed a monetary standard. It became so trusted that it circulated across Europe for generations after Louis's death in 1270, imitated by dozens of princes and city-states who could not issue a credible silver coin of their own.
The fineness of .958 held remarkably consistent through Louis's reign, a standard his successors steadily debased within decades.