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Groschen - Henry of Villars

Issuer Bishoprics of Valence and Die
Year 1337-1342
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Value 1 Groschen (12)
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Obverse description Central field occupied by a plain Greek cross of bold, even arms, enclosed within a raised inner circle. The surrounding annular zone carries the episcopal legend in uncial characters, separated from the outer rim by a beaded or rope-like border. The flan is irregular and slightly cupped, typical of mid-14th-century hammered silver coinage of the Rhône valley bishoprics. The cross divides the inner field into four equal quadrants, each plain and unadorned, lending the design a severe, hieratic quality consistent with ecclesiastical issues of the period.
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Obverse lettering ✠ hER` EPS` ET CON
(Translation: Henry, Bishop and Count...)
Reverse description Central field displays a frontal standing figure of a bishop or eagle in high relief — consistent with the imperial eagle type associated with the Dauphiné ecclesiastical coinage — rendered in a stylised, linear manner characteristic of southern French hammered groschen of the 1330s–1340s. The figure's spread wings and feather detail are boldly struck within a raised inner circle. The surrounding legend, reading the territorial title of the issuer, runs in uncial script between the inner circle and the outer beaded border. The flan shows the characteristic irregular outline and slight flan weakness of the period.
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