Double Tournois - Henriette of Lorraine 2nd type
Features
| Issuer |
Principality of Phalsbourg and Lixheim
(French States)  |
|---|---|
| Princess |
Henriette of Lorraine (1629-1660)
|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Year | 1634 |
| Value | 2 Deniers (1⁄120) |
| Currency | Livre Tournois |
| Composition | Copper |
| Weight | 2.5 g |
| Diameter | 20 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 54194 |
| References | Boudeau# 1603 Élie Boudeau. Monnaies Françaises Provinciales (4 volumes). Gérard Crépin; 2002. Catalogue des doubles et deniers tournois de cuivre royaux et féodaux (1577-1684). Les Chevau-Légers, Paris, France. Faustin Poey d'Avant. Monnaies féodales de France (15 volumes). |
Obverse
Portrait of Henriette of Lorraine.
Script: Latin
Lettering: .HENR.D.LOR.PRIN.PHAL.ET.LIX
Unabridged legend: Henrietta Ducissa Lorenae Principissa Phalsburgi Et Lixini
Translation: Henriette of Lorraine, Princess of Phalsbourg and Lixheim.
Reverse
Value and minting year surrounding a circled fleur-de-lis field under a label of three points.
Script: Latin
Lettering: DOVBLE.TOVRNOIS.1634
Unabridged legend: Double Tournois
Edge
Plain
Mint
Lixheim, FranceComments
The letters in brackets are indications about varieties of the same coin.
Obverse variants:
.HENR.A.LOTH.PRIN.PHAL.ET.LIX (a)
.HENR.D.LOR.PRIN.PHAL.ET.LIX (b)
Henriette, sister of the Duke Charles IV, had rights to struck coins in an old mint in Lixheim. This mint mainly stroke neighbour nation imitations such as France, Lorraine (under French occupation) or Spanish Netherlands. There imitations were quickly withdrawn and denounced by the concerned territories. She also stroke "legitimate" coins in the German currency system (2 kreutzer, 24 kreutzer teston) up to the principality occupation by French and Swedish troops and the Lixheim fortress dismantlement in 1634-1635 following commands of the French king.
This doubles tournois is a variation issued in order to cancel the royal withdrawal over Phalsbourg and Lixheim coinage.
Obverse variants:
.HENR.A.LOTH.PRIN.PHAL.ET.LIX (a)
.HENR.D.LOR.PRIN.PHAL.ET.LIX (b)
Henriette, sister of the Duke Charles IV, had rights to struck coins in an old mint in Lixheim. This mint mainly stroke neighbour nation imitations such as France, Lorraine (under French occupation) or Spanish Netherlands. There imitations were quickly withdrawn and denounced by the concerned territories. She also stroke "legitimate" coins in the German currency system (2 kreutzer, 24 kreutzer teston) up to the principality occupation by French and Swedish troops and the Lixheim fortress dismantlement in 1634-1635 following commands of the French king.
This doubles tournois is a variation issued in order to cancel the royal withdrawal over Phalsbourg and Lixheim coinage.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | Frequency | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| 1634 | A variety (PA#6275) | 50% | |||||||||||||
| 1634 | B variety (PA#6274) | 50% | |||||||||||||
Frequencies show the percentage of Numista users who own each year or variety among all the users who own this coin. Since some users own several versions, the sum may be greater than 100%.
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