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2 Liards - Charles I
| Issuer | Principality of Arches-Charleville (French States) |
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| Year | 1608-1614 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Armored and draped bust of Charles I of Gonzague facing right, bare-headed with a lace collar, struck in low relief. The legend commences at approximately 8 o'clock and runs clockwise around the periphery within a beaded border. The date appears in the exergue below the bust truncation. |
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| Mintage | 1608 - (fr) a1 - 1609 - (fr) a1 - 1610 - (fr) a1 - 1611 - (fr) a1 - 1612 - (fr) a1 - 1613 - (fr) b3 - 1614 - (fr) b2 - |
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The Principality of Arches-Charleville was a sovereign enclave within French territory, ruled by the Gonzaga-Nevers family. Charles I de Gonzague founded the planned city of Charleville in 1606 — laid out on a Renaissance grid directly across the Meuse from the older town of Mézières — and his local copper coinage was part of a deliberate assertion of independent princely authority within a jurisdiction France repeatedly contested.
The liard denominations of this principality circulated alongside French royal issues in the region, a source of persistent friction with Paris throughout the early seventeenth century.