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Double Tournois - Francis 9th type
| Issuer | Château-Regnault, Principality of |
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| Year | 1605-1614 |
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| Value | 2 Deniers (1⁄120) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Francis of Bourbon, Prince of Conti, facing right, wearing a milled collar. The circular legend commences at 6 o'clock and is enclosed within a smooth inner circle. The effigy is rendered in the style typical of early seventeenth-century French feudal coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Château-Regnault was a tiny principality on the Meuse in the Ardennes, and its right to strike copper coinage was perpetually contested by the French crown. Francis of Bourbon-Conti, who held the title during this period, exploited the principality's technical sovereignty to issue doubles tournois in direct imitation of royal types — a practice Paris tolerated uneasily and periodically attempted to suppress through arrêts of the royal council.
CGKL 656 is among the scarcer of the Château-Regnault attributions, the principality's output being small and its coins poorly documented in contemporary mint records.