Catalog
1/4 Ecu - Honoré II
| Issuer | Monaco |
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| Year | 1643 |
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| Currency | Livre tournois (781-1795) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The arms of Monaco — a lozenge-patterned (fusily) shield — displayed at centre, surmounted by a princely crown and encircled by a decorative collar or order chain adorned with floral and foliate ornaments. The shield bears the label 'DOMANIE' on a scroll or ribbon across its face. The circular Latin legend, divided by small ornamental stops, runs around the full periphery, with the date 1643 integrated into the lower portion of the legend. |
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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.