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Double Gold Florin - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne
| Issuer | Sedan, Principality of |
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| Year | 1610 |
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| Weight | 6.63 g |
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| Reverse description | Central device consists of a bold cross composed of four stylised tower motifs, forming the arms of an ornamental cross that fills the field. In each of the four angles of the cross is placed a crowned letter H, the initial of the prince, rendered in a decorative gothic style. A continuous Latin motto legend encircles the entire design along the outer border, separated from the central cross by a beaded circle, with the date 1610 incorporated into the legend. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne issued coinage from Sedan under a sovereignty that Paris tolerated rather than endorsed — the principality occupied a strategically critical position on the Meuse, and Henri knew the French crown needed him more than he needed their approval. The 1610 double florin belongs to a mintage tied directly to that political leverage: Henri was simultaneously a Huguenot grandee, a marshal of France, and a dynast hedging against every faction in a fractious kingdom.
Henri IV of France was assassinated in May of that same year, removing the one monarch with whom Henri de la Tour had genuinely reliable relations. Delmonte lists only a handful of die pairings for this type.