Pite - Raymond V ou Raymond VI / Raymond VII

The pite — the smallest fractional denomination in the Toulousan monetary system — was struck by the counts of Toulouse across nearly a century of extraordinary political turbulence, including the Albigensian Crusade launched in 1209, which progressively stripped the house of Saint-Gilles of its territorial power. Raymond VI was excommunicated, his lands subjected to crusader armies, and his son Raymond VII ultimately forced by the 1229 Treaty of Paris to cede vast territories to the French crown. That these tiny billon pieces circulated through all of it, in markets from Toulouse to the Rhône, makes the attribution range almost inseparable from the history of a dynasty in collapse.