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Franc, buste au col fraisé - Louis XIII
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 1616-1618 |
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| Currency | Livre tournois (987-1795) |
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| Reverse description | An ornate cross fleurettée and fleurdelisée occupies the centre of the field, its four arms terminating in fleurs-de-lis and decorative flourishes. A crowned letter L appears at the centre of the cross, itself surrounded by a lozenge of fourteen pellets. The reverse legend encircles the design within a beaded border, with the mint mark at the end of the inscription. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Louis XIII was nine years old when his father Henri IV was assassinated in 1610, leaving his mother Marie de Médicis as regent. The col fraisé — the ruffled collar visible on this bust type — was already an aging fashion by 1616, and the design was updated within a few years as royal portraiture modernized. These francs were struck at multiple provincial mints simultaneously, a decentralized system that produced considerable variation in die quality and planchet preparation across the series.