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1/4 Ecu - Honoré II
| Issuer | Monaco |
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| Year | 1643 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | DVX VALENT PAR FRAN ET C 1643 (Translation: Duke of Valentinois in France and Count.) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Honoré II had ruled Monaco as a lord under Spanish suzerainty for decades before engineering a quiet diplomatic pivot to France in 1641, receiving the title of Prince in exchange for the Treaty of Péronne. This coin — struck just two years after that realignment — represents the first generation of Monégasque coinage issued under the new French protectorate arrangement, a political watershed that defined the principality's survival strategy for the following century.