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Teston - Charles IX
| Issuer | Monnaie de France |
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| Year | 1562-1563 |
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| Diameter | 30 mm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of King Charles IX facing right, wearing armor with a ruffled collar visible at the neck truncation. The king is depicted as a youth, his hair rendered in fine detail beneath the laurel wreath. The mint mark (OA for Orleans) appears at the base of the bust truncation. A circular Latin legend runs along the periphery within a toothed border: CAROLVS IX D G FRANCO REX OA. |
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| Mintage | 1562 - No mintletter - 1562 OA - MDLXII; damascene armor. - 1562 OA - MDLXII; plain armor. - 1562 OA - MDLII - 1563 OA - - |
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Charles IX was twelve years old when he took the throne, and Catherine de Medici governed as regent through the earliest years covered by this issue. The teston itself was already a century-old denomination by 1562, but the French religious wars — the first of which broke out that very year with the Massacre of Vassy in March — created serious disruptions to mint operations across the kingdom.
The two-year window of this strike coincides almost exactly with the opening phase of the Huguenot conflicts, when bullion flows were erratic and several provincial mints operated under contested authority.