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1 Pistole - Charles III
| Issuer | Lorraine, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1587 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Reverse description | A bold Cross of Jerusalem — a large central cross potent surrounded by four smaller crosslets in each angle — occupies the centre of the field, set within a quatre-lobed inner circle of arches terminating in floral motifs at the cusps. A mint letter appears in the lower field beneath the central cross. The peripheral legend is separated from the inner design by a beaded border, with a further milled border at the coin's rim. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Charles III ruled Lorraine through one of the duchy's most precarious periods — caught between Valois France and Habsburg Spain during the Wars of Religion, he managed to keep Lorraine nominally independent largely through careful neutrality. The pistole denomination itself was a Spanish import, the name derived from the Italian pistolese, and its adoption in Lorraine reflects how thoroughly Iberian monetary conventions had penetrated the smaller sovereign states of the Holy Roman Empire's western fringe by the latter sixteenth century.
Fr#144 is not a common type, and 1587 production was almost certainly modest.