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1 Teston - Henri III
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1575 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Henri III came to the French throne in 1574 having already ruled as King of Poland for a single chaotic year before abandoning that crown to race back to Paris. His early reign coincided with the final, most exhausting phase of the French Wars of Religion, and the teston was the workhorse denomination caught in the middle — repeatedly debased, revalued by royal edict, and distrusted by a population that had learned not to take face value at face value. The monetary ordinances of the 1570s attempted to stabilize silver coinage precisely because confidence had collapsed.
The Dy 1126 attribution places this among the first years of Henri's French coinage, before the Ligue's disruptions fractured mint operations across the kingdom.