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1 Liard - Philip IV
| Issuer | Tournai, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1639-1666 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | PHIL. IIII. D.G. HISP. ET INDIAR. REX. (Translation: Philip IV, by the grace of God, King of the Spains and the Indies) |
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Tournai occupied an awkward position throughout Philip IV's reign — a Spanish Habsburg enclave deep within territory contested by France, changing hands briefly after Louis XIV's 1667 invasion before the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle returned it to Spain the following year. The long striking window for this type reflects not stability but administrative inertia; local copper coinage continued largely uninterrupted because Madrid had little appetite for reforming the fractional currency of a peripheral lordship it was already struggling to hold.