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Bugne - Robert of Lenoncourt Arms under hat
| Issuer | Bishopric of Metz |
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| Year | 1551-1552 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | R C · DE · LENONCOVRT (Translation: Cardinal Robert of Lenoncourt.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Robert de Lenoncourt held the see of Metz from 1551 to 1555, a tenure defined almost entirely by the crisis of that same year: the French occupation of Metz under the Duke of Guise in 1552, which effectively ended the city's status as a free imperial city. Small billon issues like this one were struck in the narrow window before that occupation restructured civic and episcopal authority alike. The Flon reference places this among a tight cluster of types attributed to his episcopate, none of which circulated long under stable conditions.