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Carolus - Nicolas II of Châtelet
| Issuer | Vauvillers, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1551-1554 |
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| Value | 1 Carolus (1⁄30) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Vauvillers, a minor lordship in the Haute-Saône, retained the right to strike silver coinage well into the sixteenth century — an increasingly anachronistic privilege by the 1550s, when the French crown was systematically suppressing feudal minting rights. Nicolas II de Châtelet issued this carolus during a narrow window before royal ordinances effectively ended independent seigneurial coinage in the region. The carolus denomination itself had been introduced under Charles VIII and remained a small-change workhorse, but examples attributable to lords of this rank and obscurity are genuinely uncommon survivors.