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Groschen Tournois with crown - Edward III
| Issuer | Duchy of Aquitaine (French States) |
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| Year | 1347-1351 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse lettering | DVX AQITAnIE (Translation: Duke of Aquitaine.) |
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Edward III struck these at Bordeaux during the years immediately following his stunning victory at Crécy in 1346, when English authority in Aquitaine was at a high-water mark. The Tournois type was a deliberate imitation of French royal coinage — using the enemy's monetary idiom to assert fiscal credibility across a duchy whose population was commercially francophone and accustomed to Capetian-style currency.
Elias 54 is among the more localized of Edward's Gascon issues, with surviving examples predominantly turning up in Gironde hoards rather than English ones, confirming purely regional circulation.