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Double Tournois - John Theodore Type 1
| Issuer | Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort |
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| Year | 1633-1634 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | (rose)I.TH.C.D.LE.RO.S.S.D.CH.CVGN (a) (rose)I.T.H.C.D.LE.RO.S.S.D.CH.CVGN (b) .(rose).I.TH.C.D.LE.RO.S.S.D.CH.CVGN (c) .I.TH.C.D.LE.RO.S.S.D.CH.CVGN (d) .(rose).I.T.H.C.D.LE.RO.S.S.D.CH.CVGN (e) (Translation: John-Theodore, count of Löwenstein Rochefort, sovereign lord of Chassepierre-Cugnon.) |
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John Theodore of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort struck these pieces under the peculiar privilege allowing certain Rhineland counts to produce copper coinage in the French tournois tradition — a right more jealously contested than the revenues it generated. The double tournois was a French royal type, and minor German lords minting imitative versions occupied a legal grey zone that Paris periodically moved to close. This particular county's issues are documented across multiple reference systems precisely because scholars couldn't agree on how to classify coins that were German in origin but Capetian in format.