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Sterling - Gaucher of Chatillon Pretender
| Issuer | Neufchateau, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1318-1322 |
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| Value | 1 Sterling (1⁄80) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Neufchâteau |
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Gaucher of Châtillon held the lordship of Neufchâteau in the Meuse valley through hereditary claim, but his right to strike coin was never uncontested. This sterling was issued during a window when royal French pressure on regional minting rights was intensifying — many smaller lordships struck aggressively in this period precisely because they sensed the window was closing. The "pretender" designation in modern references reflects disputed succession rather than outright illegitimacy, a distinction that mattered enormously to contemporaries and almost nothing to the merchants handling these pieces in daily trade.