France 1423 King Henry VI (1423-1449) Salut d'or 2nd issue, Rouen (AU50-53), 3.47g.
Obverse: Archangel Gabriel (on the right) standing to the left, wings half spread, facing the Virgin Mary (on the left) standing to the right, whom he visits and greets by handing her a parchment bearing the inscription "AVE".
The figures are seen half-length and placed behind the accosted shields of France and France-England; above five rays of divine light.
Lettering: HENRICVS : DEI : GRA : FRACORV : Z : AGLIE : REX (unabridged translation: "Henry by the grace of God King of the French and of England".
Reverse: Plain Latin cross accosted by a lily and a leopard, under which is a H oncial, all in a fleur-de-lis decalobe.
Lettering: XPC VINCIT XPC REGNAT XPC * IMPERAT (unabridged translation: "Christ conquers, Christ reigns, Christ commands".
From 1421, the kings of France Charles VI and Charles VII had a new type of gold coin struck: the golden "salut". Their rivals, the kings of England Henry V then his son Henry VI, hastened to copy the golden "salut" to make use of it, in particular in their French possessions, using the graphics of the French currency but with some specific modifications.
In the first issue of Henry VI's golden "saluts", ordered on February 6, 1423, the gold "salut" was worth 25 "sous tournois" (and the golden saluts therefore weighed about 3.9 grams).
However, barely seven months later and to cope with the many monetary manipulations of his adversary Charles VII (1422-1461), Henry VI had to reduce the price of gold "saluts" to 22 "sols" and 6 "deniers", or 22 "sols" and a half (for a weight of around 3.5 grams per piece).
Although Henry VI's reign continued in England until 1453, he was kicked out of France in 1449. He also did not control all the mints. The mints of Amiens, Arras, Auxerre, Dijon, Macon, Nevers and Saint-Quentin were in reality in the hands of his ally, the Duke of Burgandy, Philippe le Bon (1419-1467).
When the Duke of Burgandy reconciled with the King of France, Charles VII after the Treaty of Arras signed on September 11, 1435, all his mints immediately stopped minting coins in the name of Henry VI.
Subsequently, the cities were taken over one by one and with them their monetary mints. Finally, only Rouen remained the last to mint coins for Henry VI until October 29 of 1449.