1 Pistole - Charles III

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.