2 Sovereigns - Philip IV Type 2

Tournai's position as a Spanish Habsburg enclave deep within the southern Netherlands made it a persistent military and administrative headache throughout the Thirty Years' War and the subsequent Franco-Spanish conflict. Philip IV's extended wars drained Castilian silver reserves so severely that the crown leaned increasingly on peripheral mints — including Tournai — to sustain gold output. This Type 2 issue spans nearly two decades precisely because the dies were not replaced when finances and logistics made retooling inconvenient.

The city fell to Louis XIV in 1667, ending Habsburg minting there entirely. Coins struck in the final years of this issue were produced under active French military pressure.