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Double Tournois - Henriette of Lorraine 2nd type
| Issuer | Phalsbourg and Lixheim, Principality of |
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| Year | 1634 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Henriette of Lorraine facing right, set within a beaded inner circle. The portrait displays a simply coiffed effigy with modest drapery at the shoulder, rendered in the hammered style typical of minor French feudal coinage of the early seventeenth century. The encircling legend reads .HENR.D.LOR.PRIN.PHAL.ET.LIX, identifying the issuer as Henriette of Lorraine, Princess of Phalsbourg and Lixheim. |
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| Reverse lettering | DOVBLE.TOVRNOIS.1634 |
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Henriette of Lorraine inherited Phalsbourg and Lixheim through a web of disputed succession that kept the tiny principality in near-constant jurisdictional conflict with France throughout the 1630s. By 1634, Richelieu's consolidation of Alsatian territories was already underway, and the principality's independent coinage rights were effectively on borrowed time. This issue was struck within years of French absorption ending local monetary autonomy entirely.
The "2nd type" designation reflects a documented die modification, catalogued separately across Boudeau and CGKL, suggesting at least two distinct production phases during what was a very short window of issue.