1/4 Ecu - Francis and Louise-Marguerite 2nd type

Château-Regnault was a tiny principality on the Meuse in the Ardennes, and its right to strike coin depended entirely on the couple who held it — Francis of Bourbon-Conti and his wife Louise-Marguerite of Lorraine. The second type of this quarter écu was issued across nearly a decade, an unusually long production window for so minor a mint, likely reflecting the principality's determination to assert whatever coinage privileges remained to it before Bourbon consolidation made such autonomy increasingly difficult to defend.

Boudeau 1829 distinguishes this from the first type by subtle differences in the quartering of the arms rather than any change in module or weight.