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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Medieval & Modern Coins| > |France| > ME65252
France, The League in the Name of Henri III, 2 August 1589 - 23 January 1596
|France|, |France,| |The| |League| |in| |the| |Name| |of| |Henri| |III,| |2| |August| |1589| |-| |23| |January| |1596|, Three months after Henri was made the elected king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, his brother, Charles IX of France, died and Henri returned to France to assume the French throne. Henri brought several Polish inventions back to France, including septic facilities which deposited excrement outside the castle walls, a bath with regulated hot and cold water, and the fork. Henri gave protestant Huguenots the right of public worship, except in Paris and at Court. In response, Henry I, Duke of Guise, formed the Catholic League. Henri III was eventually forced to flee Paris. After he had the duke assassinated, Henri III prepared to return to Paris but was murdered before he could return. During the French Revolution Henri III was disinterred from his tomb, his body was desecrated and thrown into a common grave.
ME65252. Silver half franc, Duplessy 1160, Roberts 3575, Lafaurie 1002, F, irregular flan with open cracks, Limoges mint, weight 13.961g, maximum diameter 32.6mm, die axis 315o, 1590 - 1591; obverse HENRICVS III D G FRANC ET POL REX (King of France and Poland), laureate and cuirassed bust of Henry III right, •I• (mint mark) below; reverse + SIT NOMEN DOMINI BENEDICTVM (May the name of the Lord be blessed), cross of leaves each arm tipped with lis, H in the center; SOLD











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