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Denier Tournois - William Henry
| Issuer | Orange, Principality of |
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| Year | 1680 |
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| Value | 1 Denier (1⁄240) |
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| Reverse description | Three fleurs-de-lis arranged in a triangular formation — two in the upper field and one centered below — with a post horn displayed above them, the heraldic symbol of the Principality of Orange. The design is set within a plain field, with the surrounding legend DENIER.DORANGE.1680 encircling the devices along the periphery. The date 1680 appears prominently within the legend at the top of the reverse. The fleurs-de-lis and horn together constitute the traditional armorial bearings associated with the princes of Orange-Nassau. The coin exhibits the irregular flan shape and uneven strike typical of late feudal hammered copper issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | DENIER.DORANGE.1680 |
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William Henry of Orange — the future William III of England — was prince of a tiny enclave in southern France increasingly strangled by Louis XIV, who had occupied Orange militarily since 1672. This denier tournois belongs to that occupation period, when the prince governed largely in absentia from the Dutch Republic while French troops sat in his ancestral city. Louis ultimately razed the town's fortifications in 1682 and annexed the principality outright in 1713 under the Treaty of Utrecht, making any coinage struck in William's name from these years a product of a jurisdiction already effectively under foreign military control.