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Double Tournois - Urban VIII Anthony Barberini Legate
| Issuer | Papal Legation of Avignon |
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| Year | 1633-1644 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | ANT CAR BAR LE AVE 1636 (Translation: Anthony Barberini, cardinal legate of Avignon.) |
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Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin remained papal enclaves entirely surrounded by French territory, and their coinage consistently mirrored French royal types to ease circulation across that awkward jurisdictional boundary. The Double Tournois was the workhorse small denomination of seventeenth-century France, and the Avignon mint simply adopted it. Antonio Barberini — nephew of Pope Urban VIII and legate from 1633 — wielded the legation with considerable political independence, though his tenure ended in acrimony when he defected to France during the Wars of Castro.