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Double Tournois - Frederic Henry 4th type
| Issuer | Orange, Principality of |
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| Year | 1640-1642 |
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| Currency | Livre |
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| Obverse lettering | FRED.HENR.D.G.PRI.AV (Translation: Frederic Henry, by the Grace of God, prince of Orange.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Principality of Orange was a tiny sovereign enclave surrounded entirely by French territory, and that anomaly gave its rulers the right to strike coinage independent of the French crown — a privilege the Bourbon kings tolerated with increasing irritation. Frédéric-Henri of Nassau, who held Orange while simultaneously serving as Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, had little personal interest in the principality's day-to-day administration. The double tournois issues of his reign were produced largely to assert continued sovereign coining rights rather than to meet any genuine local monetary demand.
Louis XIV formally annexed Orange in 1672, ending the mint's operation permanently.