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Denier Tournois - Henri IV Dauphiné
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 1607 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Bare bust of Henri IV facing right, with the letter Z positioned beneath the bust as a mint or die mark. The legend commences at 12 o'clock within a beaded inner circle of approximately 10 mm diameter, consistent with the non-hybrid bust type (CGKL#254). The portrait is rendered in a simple, low-relief style characteristic of early seventeenth-century French copper coinage. |
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| Reverse description | Two fleurs-de-lis arranged side by side in the central field, with the letter D positioned below them serving as the mint mark for Grenoble. The legend begins at 12 o'clock within a beaded inner circle of approximately 10 mm diameter. The date 1607 is incorporated into the reverse legend, and the overall design is characteristic of the Dauphiné issue of the Denier Tournois series under Henri IV. |
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The Dauphiné deniers tournois occupy an odd corner of French monetary history — struck under royal authority but administered through the provincial apparatus of the Dauphiné, which retained distinct minting privileges long after most regional autonomies had been absorbed by the crown. Henri IV's issues from this province reflect his broader effort to stabilize petty copper coinage after the monetary chaos of the Wars of Religion, during which debased and counterfeit small denomination pieces had flooded French markets for decades.
CGKL#256 is among the more precisely documented varieties of this type.