Double Tournois - Henri III Bourges mint

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.