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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 3930096, member: 102103&quot;]Just for fun, I tried to figure out all the abbreviations on the Sedan coin, as I couldn&#039;t find them translated on Numista.&nbsp; My coin is too worn to read most of them, of course.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces54055.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces54055.html" rel="nofollow">Their example</a> is transcribed:</p><p>Ob:&nbsp; &quot;F.M.D.L.TOVR.DVC.D.BVILLON&quot;</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; &quot;DOVBLE.DE.SEDAN.1637&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Looking at other similar coins, I believe this stands for:</p><p>&quot;Frédéric-Maurice de La Tour (d&#039;Auvergne), Duc de Bouillon</p><p>Double (Tournois) de Sedan, 1673&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>In other words:&nbsp; &quot;Frédéric-Maurice of the house of La Tour d&#039;Auvergne, and Duke of Bouillon.&nbsp; A double tournois of Sedan, 1673&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wrote a bit more about the history of the coin and of Sedan and Bouillon on my personal coin <a href="https://wp.me/pa8Nfq-57" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://wp.me/pa8Nfq-57" rel="nofollow">blog</a>.&nbsp; Frédéric-Maurice seems to have been quite the political schemer.&nbsp; He was raised Protestant, converted to Catholicism after marrying a Catholic wife to improve his political position, and was repeatedly involved in plots with France&#039;s enemy Spain against Cardinal Richelieu.&nbsp; He somehow managed escape with his life and trade his principality&#039;s independence for a lieutenant-generalship in the French army.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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