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Double Tournois - Louis XIII Paris mint, 7th type
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1629-1630 |
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| Value | 2 Deniers (1⁄120 LT) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 7th type Double Tournois of Louis XIII represents one of several rapid design revisions pushed through during the late 1620s as the royal administration struggled to stabilize a copper coinage that the public routinely rejected or hoarded in favor of silver. The Paris mint's output for 1629–1630 coincides with France's escalating military commitments under Richelieu, when war expenditure on the Mantuan Succession conflict was straining the treasury and driving small denomination reform simultaneously.
The succession of numbered types within this series is itself telling — seven distinct varieties in roughly a decade signals administrative pressure, not organic evolution.