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Liard du Dauphiné - Charles IX - 2ème Émission
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 1573-1574 |
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| Currency | Livre tournois (987-1795) |
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| Obverse description | A crowned dolphin occupies the central field, rendered in a stylized heraldic manner characteristic of Dauphiné provincial coinage. The dolphin is depicted in profile with its tail curling upward beneath a royal crown. Below the principal device, the mint workshop letter appears in the lower field. The circular Latin legend surrounds the entire design, reading CAROLVS. 9. D. G. F. C. R., identifying Charles IX as king by divine grace of France and count of the Dauphiné. |
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| Mintage | 1573 - (fr) Grenoble - 154,080 1574 - (fr) Grenoble - |
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The Dauphiné maintained its own parallel coinage system well into the sixteenth century, a remnant of the province's semi-autonomous status before its formal absorption into the French crown. Charles IX's second emission of the Dauphinois liard reflects a mint administration still operating under regional authority even as Paris tightened fiscal control over provincial mints. The 1573–74 dating places this issue squarely within the upheaval following the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, when royal finances were under severe strain and small billon coinage was in constant demand for daily transactions.