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3 Deniers - Louis XIV
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 1643-1648 |
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| Weight | 3.893 g |
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| Obverse description | Youthful laureate bust of Louis XIV facing right, with long flowing hair, engraved in the style of Jean Warin. The legend LOUIS - XIIII. is divided on either side of the bust in the field, reading left and right respectively. The date appears in the lower exergual area beneath the portrait. A beaded border surrounds the entire design. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Louis XIV was five years old when this coin entered circulation. France was governed by the regent Anne of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin, whose fiscal policies — including aggressive currency manipulation and tax farming — helped ignite the Fronde, the civil wars that would scar the young king's childhood and later harden his instinct toward absolute control of the state's finances. The 3 deniers was the smallest practical copper denomination of the period, absorbed almost entirely by the urban poor and market traders.
Mazarin's administration debased and revalued copper coinage repeatedly between 1643 and 1648, making precise attribution of individual strikes to specific mint years genuinely difficult.