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Gold Pistole - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne
| Issuer | Sedan, Principality of |
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| Year | 1597 |
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| Value | 1 Gold Pistole (3) |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the quartered arms of the de la Tour d'Auvergne family, composed of multiple heraldic quarters including diagonal banding and castle motifs, surmounted by a five-arched princely crown. The armorial shield is rendered in fine detail within a plain inner circle. The surrounding circular legend reads H DE LA TOVR DE BVIL P SOV D S, identifying the issuer Henri de la Tour, Prince Sovereign of Sedan. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne struck coinage at Sedan under the precarious legal fiction that the principality retained monetary rights as a sovereign lordship, a claim the French crown disputed with increasing impatience throughout the late sixteenth century. Sedan's Protestant identity made it a refuge and a flashpoint simultaneously — Henri himself was one of the most powerful Huguenot nobles in France, a marshal who had survived the Wars of Religion and was actively building alliances that would eventually bring him into conflict with Henri IV despite their nominal friendship.
Delmonte records this type as genuinely rare in any condition. Production at Sedan was small-scale and politically fraught.