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1 Tallero - Honoré II
| Issuer | Principality of Monaco |
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| Year | 1649 |
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| Currency | Livre tournois (781-1795) |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the quartered coat of arms of the Grimaldi family of Monaco, comprising the traditional lozengy fusilly in gold and red quarters alternating with wavy barry quarters, surmounted by a princely crown with elaborate scrollwork supporters on either side. The shield is flanked by ornate acanthus-leaf mantling. A circular legend in Latin runs along the periphery, separated from the central device by a plain inner border and an outer toothed or grained rim. The numeral 28 appears at the base of the coin within the legend, denoting a denomination or administrative reference. |
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| Obverse lettering | HONORA II D G PRI MONOECI (Translation: Honoré II by the grace of God prince of Monaco.) |
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Honoré II secured the title "Prince" from Louis XIII in 1612, ending decades of Monaco's nominal Spanish suzerainty — but it was the Treaty of Péronne in 1641 that formally shifted the principality into the French orbit, and coinage like this tallero reflects the ambitions of a ruler newly invested in projecting sovereign legitimacy through struck metal. The tallero format itself was a large-denomination trade coin borrowed from Italian convention, practical for commerce but also unmistakably dynastic in weight and presence.
KM#27 is among the rarer Monégasque silver issues of the period. Honoré II's mint output was never large.