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Double of France - Godefroy Maurice
| Issuer | Duchy of Bouillon |
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| Year | 1683 |
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| Value | 2 Deniers (1⁄120) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a three-line Latin inscription in the field, with the denomination legend arranged horizontally. Below the inscription, three fleurs-de-lis are disposed in a 2-and-1 arrangement, surmounted by a royal crown at the center. The date 1683 is placed flanking the lower fleur-de-lis, split as 16 and 83 on either side. A beaded inner circle surrounds the design, consistent with the obverse treatment. |
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Godefroy Maurice de la Tour d'Auvergne ruled Bouillon as a sovereign prince while simultaneously serving as a marshal of France under Louis XIV — a dual loyalty that defined the duchy's peculiar position: nominally independent, practically a French client state on the Meuse. The billon double issued under his name in 1683 reflects that ambiguity; the denomination itself mirrors French small coinage of the period almost exactly, a deliberate alignment with the currency of a kingdom that would formally absorb Bouillon entirely in 1678 under the Treaty of Nijmegen, though the de la Tour family retained titular sovereignty for another generation.