Catalogue information

LastDodo number
7102103
Area
Coins
Title
France denier tournois (Louis XI) 1461-1483
Country
Face value
Year
1470
Variety / overstrike
Type
Designer
Series
Material
Gold- or silver content
Weight
0.8
Diameter
16
Thickness
Shape
Obverse
Reverse
Edge
Privy mark
Number produced
Krause and Mishler number
Catalogue number
Duplessy# 563
Details
Obv; 2 Fleur-de-lis, in trilobe border Rev; cross, in quadrilobe border The denier tournois (penny, of base silver) coin was initially minted by the abbey of Saint Martin in the Touraine region of France. Subsequently a coin of the same type struck by the kings of France and in several Frankish states in Greece after the Fourth Crusade. Soon after Philip II of France seized the counties of Anjou and Touraine in 1203 and standardized the use of the livre tournois there, after which it began to supersede the livre parisis (Paris pound), which had been up to that point the official currency of the Capetian dynasty. The livre tournois was, in common with the original livre of Charlemagne, divided into 20 sols (sous after 1715),[citation needed] each of which was divided into 12 deniers.