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Double Tournois - Francis 2nd type
| Issuer | Château-Regnault, Principality of |
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| Year | 1613 |
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| Weight | 2.5 g |
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| Reverse lettering | +.DOVBLE.TOVRNOIS.1613. |
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| Mintage | 1613 |
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Château-Regnault was a tiny sovereign principality on the Meuse in the Ardennes, and its right to strike copper coinage was perpetually contested by the French crown. The Double Tournois type imitating royal French issues was a common strategy among minor Lorraine-adjacent lordships — adopting the king's monetary format while quietly inserting their own name gave these princes plausible commercial reach without outright forgery. By 1613, Francis II of Gonzaga-Clèves held the principality, and his copper output was small enough that survivors are genuinely scarce despite the low collector profile of the series.