Cardinal Mazarin, Treaty of the Pyrenees, 1660.

Obv. Bust of Cardinal Mazarin in his cardinals robes. IVLIVS CARDINALIS MAZARINVS
Rev. Radiant sun over landscape HINC ORDO HINC COPIA RERVM 1660

AE54. Original strike. Unsigned, but engraved by Warin.

Allegedly commemorates the Treaty of the Pyrenees signed in 1659.

Jules Cardinal Mazarin, (1602-1661), was the first minister of France after Cardinal Richelieu's death in 1642. During the early years of King Louis XIV, he completed Richelieu's work of establishing France's supremacy among the European powers and crippling the opposition to the power of the monarchy at home.