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Double Tournois - Charles I 15th type
| Issuer | Arches-Charleville, Principality of |
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| Year | 1635-1636 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped and armored bust of Charles I of Gonzaga facing right, bare-headed and wearing a large millstone ruff collar. The effigy is rendered in profile within a beaded inner circle. The legend commences at 12 o'clock and runs clockwise around the periphery. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Charleville was the personal creation of Charles I de Gonzague, Duke of Nevers, who founded the planned city in 1606 and named it after himself. The principality's right to strike coinage derived from its status as a sovereign entity within the patchwork of the Holy Roman Empire's western fringe — technically independent, practically surrounded by French royal territory that would absorb it entirely by 1648. The double tournois types Charles issued broadly mimicked French royal coinage, an intentional move that made his copper circulate without friction alongside Bourbon issues.
The 15th type, struck across 1635–36, falls at a moment when Charleville was under significant French pressure during the Thirty Years' War.