1/2 Batzen - Henri I

Henri I de Longueville held Neuchâtel through a legitimacy that was always contested — his father Léonor inherited the county through his mother, and the Longueville grip on the territory depended heavily on French royal favor rather than any ironclad dynastic right. The billon half-batzen issues of the early 1590s fall squarely within a period when Henri was consolidating his administration of the county while simultaneously engaged in the French Wars of Religion on the Valois-Bourbon side.

The multiple DWM reference numbers reflect documented die variants within this short two-year window — at least three distinct pairings are catalogued, suggesting active die replacement rather than a single continuous run.