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1⁄12 Ecu - Anna Mary Louise 1st type
| Issuer | Dombes, Principality of |
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| Year | 1659 |
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| Weight | 2.13 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Anna Maria Louise d'Orléans — the Grande Mademoiselle, as she was known — inherited Dombes in 1627 and became one of the wealthiest women in France, with the legal authority to strike coin in her own name. This 1659 issue falls squarely in the years following the Fronde, the civil wars in which she had dramatically sided against the Crown, famously ordering the cannon of the Bastille turned on royal troops to cover Condé's retreat in 1652. Louis XIV never forgot it. She would later be exiled from court for years.
Dombes issues of this period are struck on small, often irregular planchets — a known characteristic of the Trévoux mint rather than a grading concern.