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Vaquette - Gaston X of Grailly
| Issuer | Béarn, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1436-1472 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | A plain cross with a pellet in each of the first two quarters and the initial letter G in one of the remaining quarters. The cross divides the field into four cantons. A circular Latin legend surrounds the design, reading GASTO LO CONS (Gaston, count), enclosed within a beaded or crenellated border typical of hammered billon issues of the period. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Gaston X de Grailly inherited Béarn through the Foix-Grailly line and spent much of his reign navigating the final convulsions of the Hundred Years' War, during which small billon fractions like this vaquette served the daily commerce of a principality that jealously guarded its fiscal autonomy from both French and English interference. Béarn's monetary independence was codified in its ancient fors, customary laws the counts were obliged to swear to uphold — minting their own coinage was not a privilege but an obligation under those terms.
Dy féodales references 1258–1261 account for die variation across what was likely a long production run spanning nearly four decades of his rule.