Liard - Charles III as King Charles VII

Charles III of Dauphiné — styled Charles VII of France from 1422 — struck these liards from Vienne during one of the most contested periods of the Hundred Years' War, when English and Burgundian forces controlled Paris and much of northern France. The Dauphiné, as an appanage of the French crown since 1349, maintained its own mint operations throughout, and Vienne remained a functioning issue point even as Charles's legitimacy as king was disputed by the Treaty of Troyes.

Joan of Arc's campaigns from 1429 onward progressively shifted the military balance, but the Vienne mint had been producing in Charles's name from the moment of his father's death.