Double Tournois - Henri III Toulouse mint, Type 1A

The double tournois was revived as a copper denomination under Henri III by royal edict in 1577, ending a long gap in French copper coinage — the crown had resisted base-metal coin production for decades, fearing counterfeiting and public rejection. Toulouse was one of the original authorized mints in that edict, assigned the mark M.

Type 1A represents the earliest die configuration for this issue, before subsequent edicts revised the module and lettering layout. Toulouse examples from 1579–1580 are notably scarcer than Paris output from the same window.