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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Medieval & Modern Coins| > |France| > ME48690
France, Louis XIII, 1610 - 1643
|France|, |France,| |Louis| |XIII,| |1610| |-| |1643|, James I's ambassador to Paris, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, remarked on Louis' extreme congenital speech impediment, and his double teeth: "..the king [Louis] assured me of a reciprocal affection to the king [James] my master, and of my particular welcome to his Court: his words were never many, as being so extreme a stutterer that he would sometimes hold his tongue out of his mouth a good while before he could speak so much as one word; he had besides a double row of teeth, and was observed seldom or never to spit or blow his nose, or to sweat much, tho he were very laborious and almost indefatigable in his exercises of hunting or hawking, to which he was much addicted.."
ME48690. Copper double tournois, Duplessy 1358, F, weight 2.785g, maximum diameter 20.3mm, die axis 180o, 1616; obverse •LOVIS•XIII R•DE FRAN•ET•NAV• (VI ligated to Y), laureate bust right within circle; reverse +DOVBLE TOVRNOIS•1616, three lis in the central field, two above and one below, within circular inner border; SOLD











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