1 Liard - Philip IV

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.