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1 Ecu - Louise Marguerite
| Issuer | Château-Regnault, Principality of |
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| Year | 1617 |
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| Currency | Livre (1545-1629) |
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| Obverse lettering | MONETA NOVA ARGENTIA PRINCIP CHA R 1 6 1 7 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Château-Regnault was a tiny principality in the Ardennes held by Louise Marguerite de Lorraine, Princess of Conti, who acquired it through her marriage to François de Bourbon-Conti. The right to strike coin was a jealously guarded privilege, and for a domain this small to exercise it in 1617 — during the regency turbulence following Henri IV's assassination — signals deliberate political assertion rather than economic necessity. The issue is extremely rare in any condition, surviving primarily in cabinet collections assembled by 19th-century French regional numismatists.