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Gros with tail - Philip of Navarre
| Issuer | Evreux, County of |
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| Year | 1356-1357 |
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| Value | 1 Groschen |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | Castle Tournois depicted in the center of the field, surmounted by a royal crown, rendered in the conventional hammered style of mid-14th-century feudal coinage. The castle is enclosed within a circular border composed of twelve fleurs-de-lis, alternating to form a decorative inner ring. The outer legend in uncial Gothic lettering identifies the denomination's origin as Tours, following the established iconographic conventions of the gros tournois type. The entire design is characteristic of the feudal imitations of royal Tournois coinage produced under the Evreux dynasty. |
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Philip of Navarre held the county of Évreux as a cadet branch possession while his brother Charles II — Charles the Bad — was imprisoned by John II of France in April 1356. Philip used that interval to govern Normandy and mint aggressively in his own right, this gros among the issues struck during that window before Charles was freed following the chaos of Poitiers.
The "tail" variant distinguishes this type from the standard gros through a specific extension on the cross, a minor die feature that Poey d'Avant catalogued separately precisely because it correlates with a discrete production period.