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Double Tournois - Charles I 10th type
| Issuer | Principality of Arches-Charleville |
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| Year | 1634 |
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| Reference(s) | CGKL#606 |
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| Reverse description | Three fleurs-de-lis arranged in the field, a traditional heraldic device associated with French royal and feudal coinage of the tournois type. The legend begins at 12 o'clock and runs clockwise, incorporating the denomination and date. The design is enclosed within a double circle divided by eight pellets at regular intervals. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Charleville was a deliberate provocation. Charles I de Gonzague founded the town in 1606 specifically to compete with the nearby Spanish-held town of Mézières, and his principality's right to strike coinage was exercised with similar defiance — producing French-denomination copper in a pocket territory that technically operated outside French royal monetary authority. The Double Tournois types he issued across his long reign are catalogued through numerous sequential varieties, and CGKL#606 represents one of the later distinctions in that sequence, differentiated by die subtleties that took Colaert, Genevès, Kupiec, and Lagarde considerable effort to untangle.