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Double Tournois - Henri III Bourges mint
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 1587-1593 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND Y - (fr) 3 points / a1 - 360,048 ND Y - (fr) Croissant / a1, a2 - 359,999 ND Y - (fr) O sous le buste / b3 - 1587 Y - (fr) O sous le buste / c4 - 1588 Y - (fr) O sous le buste / b5, d6 - 208,338 ND (1591-1593) Y - (fr) Non retrouvé - 208,338 |
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Henri III's copper coinage from this period was struck against a backdrop of the Wars of Religion at their most destructive phase — the king was simultaneously fighting the Catholic League and Protestant forces, leaving royal finances in near-continuous crisis. The Bourges mint, operating under constant pressure to supply small change for a disrupted economy, was one of several provincial houses pressed into heavier production of low-denomination copper when silver circulation all but collapsed in the late 1580s.
Henri was assassinated in 1589, making the upper bound of this issue's date range a posthumous attribution under a mint that continued striking to existing warrants.