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1 Ecu - Honoré II
| Issuer | Monaco |
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| Year | 1648-1651 |
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| Currency | Livre tournois (781-1795) |
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| Obverse description | Draped and armored bust of Honoré II facing right, with long flowing hair, wearing a lace cravat and decorated breastplate with an order cross visible at center. The effigy is rendered in a bold baroque style characteristic of mid-17th century French coinage. A circular Latin legend runs along the inner border of a beaded rim, interrupted at the top by a small ornamental device. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Honoré II secured formal recognition of Monégasque sovereignty from Louis XIV in 1641 under the Treaty of Péronne, abandoning a century of Spanish protection in exchange for French backing — and it was this newly legitimized authority that made issuing coinage in his own name politically viable. The écu series followed directly from that diplomatic realignment.
KM#14 is among the larger silver issues of the principality and among the earliest to circulate under unambiguous Grimaldi sovereignty. Surviving examples in any condition above heavily worn are genuinely scarce; Monaco struck no coin in quantity and these saw real use.