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Ecu - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne
| Issuer | Sedan, Principality of |
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| Year | 1614 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne struck coinage at Sedan under a peculiar legal ambiguity — the principality sat on French soil but operated as a semi-sovereign Reformed Protestant enclave, its mint rights a persistent irritant to the French crown. By 1614, Henri was one of the most powerful Huguenot grandees in France, fresh from his role in the turbulent regency politics following Henri IV's assassination in 1610. Sedan's coinage was as much a political assertion as a practical necessity.
The principality lost its independent mint permanently in 1642 when Richelieu annexed Sedan outright following the execution of Henri's son, Frédéric-Maurice, for conspiracy.