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Double Tournois - Charles I 14th type
| Issuer | Arches-Charleville, Principality of |
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| Year | 1635 |
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| Value | 2 Deniers (1⁄120) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | + DOVBLE.D.LA.S.DAR.1635 |
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Charleville was the creation of Charles de Gonzague, Duke of Nevers, who founded the planned city in 1606 and named it after himself. The principality of Arches-Charleville occupied a strategically awkward strip of territory within the French kingdom yet outside its monetary jurisdiction, which gave the Gonzague line the right to strike their own copper coinage — a privilege they exploited with considerable vigor throughout the Thirty Years' War period. French royal authorities grew increasingly hostile to these semi-autonomous mints flooding nearby markets with competing petty coinage.
The 14th type designation in the CGKL sequence reflects how frequently the dies were modified across Charles's long output.