Double of France - Godefroy Maurice

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.