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The
monetary system of Francis I
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He continued the gold minting of ducats: 30,
15 (very rare), 6 and 3. The 6 and 3 ducats
show on their reverse the winged Bourbon genius.
The silver minting included the piaster, half
piaster, tari and carlin.
In copper, the 10 and 5 tournois and the tournois,
and after 25 years the grain
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The monetary system
of Ferdinand II
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Almost
every year of his kingdom, he minted gold coins
(56), silver coins (125 among piasters, half
piasters, taris, carlins and, from 1836, the
half carlin coin) copper coins (7 different
coins among which 10, 5, 3, 2 tournois and the
tournois and half tournois), and also added
other nominals to those issued by his predecessors.
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The monetary system of Francis
II
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In
his very short kingdom, he did not mint gold
coins, also because of the fact that minting
masters were maddeningly slow in their engraving.
He only minted 2 silver coins (the piaster and
te tari) and two copper coins, the 10 and 2
tournois.
During his exile in Rome, he continued the minting
of coins to stress his sovereignty: produced
10 tournois coins slightly different from past
ones.
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As M. Pannuti said, «These pieces, though
they were forgery, cannot be considered faked, since
they were minted by order of the sovereign, though he
had been deposed»  .
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