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1⁄12 Ecu - Anna Mary Louise 3rd type
| Issuer | Dombes, Principality of |
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| Year | 1664 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse lettering | AN.MA.LVD.PRINC.SVP.DOMBA (Translation: Anna Mary Louise, Sovereign Princess of Dombes.) |
| Reverse description | Crowned shield bearing the Orleans arms — a field semé of fleurs-de-lis with a central fleur-de-lis en surtout — surmounted by an open royal crown with fleurs-de-lis finials. The shield is set within a circular Latin legend incorporating the date 1664. A milled beaded border frames the design. The arms are boldly struck in high relief, with the crown rendered in fine detail above the shield. |
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Anna Maria Louise d'Orléans — the Grande Mademoiselle, as she was known — held the Dombes principality as part of her Montpensier inheritance and exercised genuine seigneurial minting rights there throughout the mid-seventeenth century. Her coinage is among the few French feudal series struck under a woman's authority in this period, not as regent but as sovereign princess in her own right. The "3rd type" designation reflects die modifications introduced over the course of her long tenure, the earlier types being considerably scarcer.