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Liard - Francis I
| Issuer | Royal French Mint |
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| Year | 1541-1547 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse lettering | FRA NCIS : D: G: FRANCO: REX. (Mm). |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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The liard as a denomination was formally established by royal ordinance in 1454 under Charles VII, but it was Francis I who oversaw its most active period of reform, repeatedly adjusting billon fineness downward as the crown strained to fund the Italian Wars and the ruinous rivalry with Charles V. The issues of his final years reflect a mint system under genuine fiscal pressure, not merely administrative tinkering.
Dy royales 930 covers a narrow window of production — six years at most — across multiple French mints operating under varying local conditions.