Groschen with leopard - Henry of Lancaster

Henry of Lancaster held Bergerac as an English-controlled lordship during a period when Edward III's forces dominated much of Gascony following the early campaigns of the Hundred Years' War. The leopard type was a deliberate political signal — the Plantagenet leopard stamped English authority onto local coinage at a moment when French and English administrations were actively competing for fiscal control of the Dordogne region.

The Elias variety designation suggests die differences exist within this short emission window. Lancaster's tenure as lord was interrupted by the Black Death, which struck Bergerac severely in 1348, almost certainly disrupting mint operations mid-issue.