Définition

• This term was applied to various varieties of the billon Deniers is- sued in France and Lorraine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. As the name implies, it was used to designate coins of the baser sort from those of pure metal.

  The Bourgeois Fort, i.e., the heavy Bour- geois, bore the inscription, BVRGENSIS FOR- TIS, and the Bourgeois Simple was in- scribed BVRGENSIS NOVVS. See Borgesi Neri.

La source

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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