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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;panzerman, post: 24705039, member: 77704&quot;]France</p><p>AV Écu d&#039;or au soleil 1590</p><p>Paris Mint</p><p>Charles X Cardinal de Bourbon 1589-90</p><p><br /></p><p>NOTE: All gold coins of Charles X are crappy strikes/ surprised he did not have his mint master/ director sent to the &quot;axe man&quot;</p><p>Also/ in 1589 King Henri III died childless/ meanwhile his Sister Marguerite de Valois was forced to marry the Huguenot (Protestant) Henry of Navarre in 1567. That same year Pope Gregorius XIII and French Catholics decided to wipe out the Huguenots on St Batholomews Day Massacre&quot;. They killed a lot of them/ some escaped (famed German ace Adolf Galland) was descended from French Protestants that escaped to Germany. Back to Cardinal de Bourbon/ he was imprisoned by Henri III/ after the King died/ the Catholic League made him King/ instead of Henry of Navarre (Henri[ATTACH=full]1578316[/ATTACH] IV)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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