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Denier Tournois - Charles I 1st type
| Issuer | Principality of Arches-Charleville |
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| Year | 1608-1610 |
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| Weight | 1.7 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | CH : D.GONZ.D.DE.NEVERS. 1609 |
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The Principality of Arches-Charleville was a tiny sovereign enclave within French territory, created when Charles de Gonzague founded Charleville in 1606 as a planned Renaissance city on the Meuse. His right to strike coinage derived from the imperial fief status of the territory — technically under the Holy Roman Empire, not the French crown — which gave him monetary independence his neighbors found perpetually irritating. French authorities repeatedly challenged the legitimacy of these issues throughout the early seventeenth century.
The denier tournois denomination itself was a French monetary tradition Charles deliberately borrowed to ease local circulation.