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Groschen - Edward III
| Issuer | Aquitaine, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1325-1362 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | BNDICTV: SIT: NOME: DNI: NRI: D + ED`: REX: ANGLIE (Translation: Edward, king of England. Blessed be the name of our Lord.) |
| Reverse description | A crowned castle or tower, rendered in a stylized Gothic manner, occupies the central field; the structure features crenellations at the top and an arched gateway at the base. Surrounding the central device is a decorative border of twelve leaves or trefoil ornaments, alternating with crescent and mullet motifs, all contained within a beaded inner circle. The circumferential Latin legend declaring Edward's title as Duke of Aquitaine runs between the inner and outer beaded borders. |
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Edward III inherited Aquitaine as a dependency of the English crown under terms that required him to perform liege homage to the French king — a humiliating obligation he eventually refused, and which became one of the triggers for the Hundred Years' War. This groschen was struck during precisely that period of deteriorating Anglo-French relations, when Gascon coinage served the practical function of asserting territorial monetary authority over a duchy perpetually contested by the Capetian and Valois courts.
The Elias 63 attribution places it within a tight grouping of Edward's Aquitainian issues distinguished from his English coinage by weight standard and the use of the ducal rather than royal titulature.